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Snow Peas have a slightly less sweet and more earthy taste than snap peas. They also have a more tender, flatter, and thinner pod wall encasing smaller pea seeds. Snow peas are usually ready for harvest in Ontario in mid summer.
Snow Peas are a great pea to add to stir-frys and salads due to their thin pod walls. They can also be enjoyed fresh, or can be dried, frozen, or canned for longer storage and use in the off-season months.
Snow Peas are a type of sugar pea. Sugar Peas are a type of pea with a tender pod shell which can be eaten whole, pod, seeds and all. Modern day cultivars of the pea plant are descended from the wild pea, which originated from the Mediterranean area and the Near East. Garden and Sugar Peas are an innovative luxury that was developed in Early Modern Europe. Snow Peas are predominantly used in Asian cuisines.
