Green peas are good and harmful. How to preserve peas in the home?

In the article - about the benefits of green peas and ways of preserving it for the winter.

"Hanging pods, at the ends of hooks. In the middle of the row are succulent nucleoli. "In this children's puzzle we are talking about green peas, the pulp of a legume plant, the useful and culinary properties of which many underestimate. Meanwhile, it can be called a food product, which must be present in the diet of each person in fresh or canned form.

The use of green peas fresh and canned

The vegetable family of Legumes is diverse and numerous. One of its representatives, taste and useful qualities of which humanity estimated thousands of years ago, is pea( green).This is an annual climbing herb native to India, but today it is grown everywhere.

IMPORTANT: Prior to the appearance of potatoes, it was the green peas that were the main food product in Russia. He was called the "king"

Pea - a plant unpretentious, it grows practically in all kitchen gardens and suburban areas. Residents of the villages tasted it fresh and raw, only ripped from the garden. In the season they cook pea soups and salads, stew the stew, bake pies.

City lucky little less - if they do not have time to stock up fresh peas from the market, they have to be satisfied with what is sold rolled into banks. Is it as useful as fresh? After all, it is known that during conservation, some of the substances in the product break up. It is necessary to consider this issue in more detail.

In fresh green peas a lot of vegetable protein and other nutrients.

First, you need to go through the composition of the fresh product:

1. Protein( vegetable) in the product is quite a lot, from 5% to 7%.It is quickly and completely sown by the body and is spent on building its new structural units. If a person does not eat meat for some reason, he needs to take care that the peas are on his table at least a couple of times a week.
2. Fat in peas is insignificant, up to 1% of
3. Carbohydrates represented by sugars( glucose, maltose,sucrose) and starch, the product contains 10-14%.They are also well absorbed by the body and processed into the energy necessary for the life of the
4. Dietary fiber in the product up to 5%
5. The product has a high percentage of amino acids( arginine, lysine, glycine, valine, etc.) and organic acids( omega 3 and omega 6, palmitic, oleic, stearic, linoleic and linolenic(
6. 70 - 75% green pea consists of water
7. Micronutrients in pea are vitamins( A and beta carotene, B1, B2, B5, B6, B9, B12, C, D, E, H, K, PP), micro- and macroelements( iron, calcium,26)

IMPORTANT: Those who watch the weight, green peas do not hurt: 100 g contain only 73 kcal

Preservation of green peas isway to keep the product for consumption outside the season. Preparing is possible in domestic and industrial conditions. Unfortunately, some benefit of peas in the process of conservation is lost.

With temperature treatment, under the influence of acid and salt, a part of the protein breaks down, some vitamins break down, and the amino acids in the product become less nearly half. Nevertheless, in the winter, in the absence of fresh vegetables and fruits, canned peas are still able to fill the deficiency of vitamins and minerals in the human body.

Although slightly smaller than fresh, quality canned peas are beneficial for the body.

The use of green peas fresh or in canned food has a positive effect on important systems of human organs:

1. Vegetable protein is necessary for the construction of new cells by the body.
2. Group B vitamins and pyridoxine contained in peas have a beneficial effect on the work of the brain and nervous system of a person.
3. The product has the anticonvulsant property of
4. Antioxidants in peas prevent the ingress of radio nucleotides into the body, which turns the product into an anti-cancer agent
5. . Water in peas and a small percentage of dietary fibers allow it to be used as a diuretic, choleretic and soft laxative.
6. Peas cleans vessels from cholesterol plaques,improves the tone of blood vessels, stabilizes the work of the heart
7. Pea consumption stimulates regenerative processes throughout the body, it rendersand the body is healthy and rejuvenating effect of
8. In folk medicine and cosmetology peas in the form of puree, tinctures from its leaves are used externally for skin care, skin allergies, dermatitis, skin peeling, fastest wound healing

Harm green peas fresh and canned

Freshgreen peas, if he grew up in an environmentally clean place, not spoiled and used in moderation, does not harm the body. If you eat too much, you can:

• stomach upset
• bloating
• flatulence

Fresh green peas are useful for children, but enter it in their menus carefully.

IMPORTANT: Pregnant women and nursing mothers can eat fresh peas, because it has a lot of useful. But to start to try it it is necessary gradually, observing reaction of own GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT and reaction of the child. Mom baby, whose colic, from the consumption of peas should be temporarily abandoned. Also it is necessary to watch that the product does not give an allergic reaction: the probability of it is at least minimal, but there is

. As for the peas, it is all mixed.

1. It's not the product itself that can harm a person's body, but mistakes and violations of technology during its preparation and storage.
2. The home-made peas in the banks are very sure, there is nothing but the product itself, salt, sugar and water( sometimes vinegar).In industrialized cans often contain preservatives
3. Canned food is often made not from fresh, but from dry peas. Milking reduces its nutritional value. To insure yourself, when choosing canned food, you should pay attention to the date of their manufacture. This should be a "pea season" - from May to July

It is important that the canned peas be quality.

Calorie content of green peas canned

Depending on the method of harvesting and the manufacturer, the calorie content of green pea can vary from 50 to 70 kcal per 100 g.

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Preserves peas canned

Cook peas for winter by preserving the housecan be used in different ways:

• use only sugar and salt
• use citric acid
• use vinegar( marinate)

IMPORTANT: It seems that peeling peasShade long? There is a quick and easy way! It is necessary to pour the pods into a saucepan with boiling water and boil for 5 minutes. The pods will open, peas are easily separated from them. It will be enough to catch and discard the peel, and peas the pea to drill

RECIPE: Canned green peas sweet

Canned green peas sweet.

It is necessary( for 1 can of 0,5 l): peas green peeled - 300 g, water - 1 l, salt - 1 teaspoon, sugar - 1 tbsp.a spoon.

• water is poured into an enameled saucepan.
• is poured into the water with peas, sugar and salt is added.
• is brought to boiling water, peas are cooked for 15-20 minutes.
• is sterilized at that time. Jars and covers
• are folded boiled peas into a colander.
• decoction is filtered twice through gauze
• peasspread on prepared banks, pour decoction of
• set cans to be sterilized for 20-30 minutes
• after they are rolled up with sterile lids
• cans with canned peas cool down on the cover

IMPORTANT: Sterileform a bank like this: put them in a pot filled with water so that it covers three-quarters of the banks. At the bottom of the pot, a diaper should be laid. Banks should be covered with lids, but not rolled up. Bring water to a boil and keep the cans with peas in it the right amount of time

RECIPE: Canned peas with citric acid

Products for canned peas with citric acid.

In this case, citric acid acts as a preservative, so the peas so prepared do not need to be sterilized.
It is necessary( for 1 can of 0,5 l): Peas green peeled - 300 g, water - 1 l, sugar - 2 tbsp.spoons, salt - 1 tbsp.spoon, citric acid - 1 teaspoon.

• from the water, salt and sugar prepare the marinade and put it to boil
• in boiling marinade pour the washed green peas
• boil the peas a quarter of an hour, five minutes before switching off add the citric acid
• to the marinade after shifting the peas into sterile jars so that they are fillednot completely, 2 cm before reaching the top
• , the cans are rolled up with sterile lids, cooled and placed in the refrigerator, where the workpiece

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Canned peas for the winter: recipe with vinegar

With vinegar green peas are spicy, so it is well suited for salads and snacks.
RECIPE: Pickled green peas with vinegar

Marinated green peas with vinegar.

It is necessary: ​​polish peeled - 300 g, water - 1 l, sugar and salt - 1 tbsp.spoon, vinegar 9% - 0.3 cups.

• polka dots cooked in boiling water for 5 minutes
• separately cooked marinade - water with salt, sugar and vinegar
• in sterile cans spread peas and pour in marinade
• cover the jars with sterile caps and sterilize for half an hour
• roll up cans
• cool cans upside down, under a towel

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