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Dried Peas, whole Green Peas, Dried Salted Peas: Dried Peas Nutritional ValueDried peas are the harder and the starchier form of fresh peas and can be a perfectly used when fresh peas are not readily available. As they are prepared in a different way they are usually classified in a separate group, although they belong to the same family of beans and legume. The making of dried peas generally involves harvesting the peapods when they are fully matured, then drying them to get dried peas. They split on their own when the skin is removed after they are dried.
Calories in Dried Peas : Value of Dried Peas
Dried peas are a very good source of dietary fiber, molybdenum, and good source of proteins, thiamin, folate, manganese, potassium, phosphorus and almost negligible amount of fat.
Dried peas also features isoflavones that are phytonutrients that act like plant weak estrogens in the body and are believed to have protective effect in some health conditions like prostate and breast cancer.
Dried peas are an excellent source of fiber that has a cholesterol lowering effect like most of the other legumes. Besides lowering cholesterol, fiber from dried peas also help to control blood sugar levels in people with irregular glucose metabolism like in diabetes, hypoglycemia or insulin resistance. Dried peas may help to maintain the blood sugar levels by slowly burning the energy and providing steady amounts of glucose to the blood.
The insoluble fiber in dried peas helps to relieve constipation by increasing the stool bulk and may also prevent gastrointestinal disorders like diverticulitis and irritable bowel syndrome. A cup of dried peas provides 65.1 % of the daily value for fiber.
Molybdenum is an important component of sulfite oxidase, an enzyme required for detoxification of sulfites.
Sulfites when consumed in higher amounts (commonly added in prepared foods and salad bars) can cause headache, rapid heartbeat or disorientation. This reaction to sulfites is only possible when the body stores of molybdenum are low. Dried peas are rich in this trace mineral and a cup of cooked dried peas would provide 196 % of the daily value for molybdenum.
Folate along with magnesium helps to keep the levels of homocysteine in check, as an increase value is associated with a risk factor for heart disease. Magnesium is also a natural calcium channel blocker and helps improve blood flow throughout the body. Potassium from dried peas helps to maintain the blood pressure and may decrease the development of plaques in the blood vessels thus offering a good heart health.
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| Submitted on February 24, 2009 |
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