Nutritional Importance of Vegetable pea

Nutritional Iemportance

Pea is a protein rich vegetable crop. It is used as fresh vegetable and can be stored by following various processing techniques like canning, freezing etc. If we evaluate vegetable peas nutritionally, it contains:

Raw Green Pea nutritional value per 100 g

Nutrients	Energy 80 kcal
Carbohydrates	14.5 g
Sugars  5.7 g Dietary fiber  5.1 g
Fat	0.4 g
Protein	5.4 g
Vitamin A equiv.  38 μg	4%
- β-carotene  449 μg	4%
Thiamine (Vit. B1)  0.3 mg	23%
Riboflavin (Vit. B2)  0.1 mg	7%
Niacin (Vit. B3)  2.1 mg	14%
Pantothenic acid (B5) 0.1 mg	2%
Vitamin B6  0.2 mg	15%
Folate (Vit. B9)  65 μg	16%
Vitamin C  40.0 mg	67%
Calcium  25.0 mg	3%
Iron  1.5 mg	12%
Magnesium  33.0 mg	9%
Phosphorus  108 mg	15%
Potassium  244 mg	5%
Zinc  1.2 mg	12%