The Field Guideby Moss & MarrowThe Field Guideby Moss & Marrow
Also called sugarsnaps, sluimererwten.
In the Netherlands, mangetout & sugar snaps are in season June to August, at their best in June and July. November is outside the Dutch season for mangetout & sugar snaps.
Dutch mangetout are picked from June to August. The rest of the year they are flown in from Africa or Central America.
Flat, bright green and snapping cleanly. Avoid pods with the peas already bulging.
Vitamin C, vitamin K and fibre, with the pod's folate.
To get the most: Raw or a minute in the pan; vitamin C falls with every extra minute of heat.
On our nutrient density chart, a normal serving of snow peas (100 g) gives about a third of a day's vitamin K and about a fifth of a day's vitamin C, counting what your body absorbs. That puts them in the top 25% of the 244 foods we scored.
Content per NEVO, the Dutch food composition database. This describes what the food contains, not what it does for you.
Top and tail, then stir-fry or blanch for a minute. They are good raw in a salad.
8 producers in The Field Guide sell mangetout & sugar snaps, according to their own website or shop list, each checked against our inclusion criteria and listed by province. Another 171 growers passed our bar for this food group; we have not yet recorded what each of them grows, so ask them or search the map.
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