Green peas is an indispensable ingredient for Olivier and Vinegret, a good garnish for meat and a bird, well combined with pasta or potato mashed potatoes. Green peas is considered a completely dietary product. Like all legumes, this is a source relative to a full protein. In canned food with natural peas are perfectly preserved, unlike many products, vitamins, for example, Vitamin C.
When choosing a green peas, take into account that these canned food is produced or from fresh raw materials or from the restored.
- Canned food made of restored peas are characterized by lower nutritional value than those made from fresh peas.
- In canned food made of fresh green peas, more vitamin C than in those manufactured from dried peas and further reconditioned.
What can be dangerous green peas?
In the process of growth and ripening, he accumulates pesticides. Canned food made from poor-quality raw materials, with a high content of pesticides, can harm health.
Also in canned green peas usually have salt. Excessive consumption of saline products can provoke diseases of the cardiovascular system, kidneys.
Which green peas is better, and what violations are peculiar to this category, you can find out by reading the results.
Delicious, useful and moderately - it seems, there is no deficiencies in canned peas. Although ... Wait-ka, one after all there is: his mysteriousness. This product is carefully hidden from the eye of the consumer under dense packaging and a colorful label, and therefore choose a pot of peas from six seven offered in the store and then do not regret it - the task is not from the lungs. You can guide the cost. You can rely on the already familiar manufacturer. It is possible to rely on intuition ... And you can "include" all five senses and values \u200b\u200blike a good detective.
Carefully look ...
... on packaging.Of course, glass containers for canned food. First, it will not hide nestable (muddy fill of thick consistency) and overripe (shapeless, damaged) peas. And secondly, it will not enter with the contents of canned food in the chemical reaction.
But we are more often dealing with tin cans, so we will choose from them. Carefully inspect the top of the selected sample: there should be no dents and bloats on the bank - this is a clear sign of bombing. In other words, the product was spoiled and gases were formed inside, which and "damaged" to the container. By the way, in a closed form, polka dots can be stored at room temperature, but if the container is open, it is better to keep it in the refrigerator, using for several days.
... on the label.The manufacturer of the "right" peas will definitely indicate its address, will not forget about the shelf life and the conditions for storing the product, as well as in detail the composition. Preference canned food, in which there are no food additives, sweeteners and other taste improvers. Of course, manufacturers can assume that "chemistry" is necessary for the preservation of peas, but it is not so, quite a heat treatment. The ideal composition of canned food is, actually peas, water, sugar and salt.
... at the date of production. Ideally, a young, green and juicy polka dot "directly from the bed" should be selected for conservation. But in practice, dry peas can get into the banks, which was soaked and then melted. In order not to stay on the beans, carefully examine the product date of the product. The best peas is produced during the harvest, usually in the summer, in June or July. In addition, the date may "say" whether the product is not spoiled: the maximum shelf life is 5 years.
... on grade peas.For canning, smooth-cooled and brain varieties are usually used. The smooth-seed peas is large, round and smooth, beautiful and representative, with a torful taste - it is added to salads, use to decorate dishes. The brain bed, oval, delicious, sweet and fragrant. It will also be good in salads, but unlike smooth-growing not just complement them, but will add your unique taste. In addition, it will turn out excellent pies, puree and filling for pies.
... on the mass of the main product (peas).The amount of pouring few people are interested in: only economical hostesses use it for soups and sauces, usually brines simply pour. Another thing is peas. In absolutely the same kind of tin cans, it can be 250, and 300 g. The difference is actually huge! After all, 50 g is two tablespoons with a slide. It is so much a peas need to prepare two portions of Olivier salad or three plates of pea soup.
Listen
Before omitting the jar with a peas in the basket, slightly shake it. The perfect product must publish at least sounds. If the peas is helplessly beating about the wall, it means that there is not enough brine in the container. Bulk and ducky content indicates that there is a lot of air in a jar that reduces the quality of the product. And only the rustling proves that canned food rolled through all the rules.
Unfortunately, touching, smelling and taste We can "include" only at home. But it is not bad: next time we will know exactly what manufacturer is decent. Moderately mature and qualitatively prepared peas on the touch elastic and have a slight resistance when crushing. If they are also pleasant to smell - send them to the mouth without delay. Or add to dishes. Do not doubt: good canned peas will decorate any salad, be it traditional Vinaigrette, Olivier or less traditional meat salads and salads with seafood. It is a welcome guest in soups, hot vegetable dishes, casseroles and pastes, such as ham. They can be decorated with roast and pizza. It turns out a delicious vegetarian pate and rice with vegetables ... but you never know what! It would be in the covers a jar with a favorite, proven peas, and it always escapes application.
Pluses and cons of green peas
Pros:
Many squirrel.In the green peas, it is not less than in beef (18-20 g per 100 g of the product). This product will help to fill the protein reserve during diets and posts, especially in combination with croups.
Satisfying. Thanks to the optimal combination of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, as well as the high content of starch, peas are digested for a long time, and therefore, for a long time, the "eternal voice of hunger".
Protection for the heart and blood vessels.In the pea many lecithin and unsaturated fatty acids, which are good at the cardiovascular system. In Latin American countries, where legumes are in great honor, the ischemic heart disease is rare.
Minuses:
Gases.Peas - "heavy artillery" for gentle digestive organs, especially for not very healthy. In order not to suffer from meteorism, give preference to canned, it is digested easier. And do not turn the peas in an independent meal, and gradually add to salads and vegetable dishes. The more he will have "neighbors" on a plate, the better.
High calorie. 300 kcal / 100 g is no less than in rice, and more than in bread. Therefore, those who are watching the figure stands there are peas not with banks, but as part of mixed dishes.
It is a popular ingredient for the preparation of salads. It is used as a garnish for meat dishes and for other purposes. This product has a lot of useful properties that are preserved when it is conservation. It is the canned product of this species most often used in cooking, since fresh green peas for a short time after harvesting retains a juiciness and other qualities.
Green Peas quality standards
It helps to choose and evaluate the polka dot GOST R 54050-2010, spreading to canned natural such products. According to this standard, peas are divided into products of the highest, first and second commercial variety.
- Grains must be integer and without impurities of the shells.
- The presence in canned brown feed peas is eliminated.
- The smell is weak, natural, peculiar to canned green peas. There should be no extraneous tastes and fragrances.
- Color grains are homogeneous in one packaging light green or olive.
- For the highest grade, a soft homogeneous consistency is characteristic. For the first soft heterogeneous and for the second, more solid inhomogeneous consistency.
- The fill must be transparent with a greenish or olive tint.
- Depending on the variety, it is permissible to 6-10% of the mass fraction of broken grains.
- Products of the first and second grade is possible a slight starchy taste.
- Single grains are possible, differing in color from the main mass of the peas.
- Permissible, the presence of a small sediment of the particles of pulp and a weak turbidity for the highest grade products.
- Maybe with a sediment in the form of starch and muddy fill with green peas, GOST allows this for the product of the first and second grade.
- Mineral and other extraneous impurities should not be.
- Mass fraction directly peas in canned food at least 60%.
How to choose green peas?
In Guest, information is given to what the product should be. But in the store it is in the package, as a rule in the Iron Bank. How to understand in this situation, what polka dot is better? There are several tips for buyers who help in this matter.
- Choose banks with the production date printed by paint. If it is carved on a paper label or squeezed at the bottom of the lid, it indicates obsolete equipment for the production of canned peas.
- The best choice is green peas, which was sunk in canned in May or June, which you will learn from the date of production. These months are going to young, but already mature polka dots.
- Choose products made according to GOST, which should contain a trade variety - the highest, first or second.
- You can shake the jar with a peas. If there is no sound of overflowing fill, then the manufacturer did not regret the product for canned food. The presence of knocking deaf sounds reports an old and solid peas in a jar with a small fill. Such a product is better not to buy.
When you already open canned food with green peas, pay attention to the color of the grains. If they are green, such products can be used to prepare salads and as a side dish. The yellowish color speaks of the overripe and greater stiffness of the peas. Such a product is better used in cooking, adding to various dishes with additional processing: cook, stew and so on. Brown grains of pea - marriage, there should be no one.
Carefully examining information about the benefits of green peas, we strongly recommend including it in a daily diet, and not just the composition of the festive New Year's salads. Fresh and canned peas are a very valuable source of vegetable protein, carbohydrates and vitamins. It has high content of mineral salts and trace elements. It is useful for preventing diseases of the cardiovascular system, as well as to maintain the health and energy of the body. Let's figure out what to pay attention to when purchasing it.
Exterior of banks
Most often peas are sold in heavy banks that deprive us of the opportunity to consider their contents. However, even the appearance of the bank can tell us a lot about the quality of the product. It should be without dents, rust and chips: any damage can entail chip enamel inside and its hit in a plate. When buying a glass jar, pay attention to the lid: it should not be swollen.
Structure
The only possible composition of high-quality peas sounds like this: peas fresh, water, sugar. Any preservative additions are talking about low quality product. Polkah must be made according to GOST and correspond to the highest grade. The best among varieties is considered to be brain, after cooking and canning it is greasy even more. If you see the name of this variety on the package - choose it. It is good both in salads and in soups and side dishes, is very useful and distinguished by excellent taste.
Manufacture date
When buying it is important to watch not only for the shelf life, but also on the date of manufacture: the most delicious and qualitative will be the peas, which is made in July, that is, immediately after harvesting. If it is made in autumn or in winter, then, most likely, a dry peas was used for its production.
View of Gorn
After opening the banks, appreciate the look of the peas: they must be integer, bright, without separated skin and sprouts. The color of the canned peas can be green, light green or have a slightly yellowish shade of green. Peters must be necessarily the same color and shape. If this is not so, some of the peas are different in color or form - there are no contents of this bank. The brine should be transparent - a turbid white precipitate at the bottom of the bank says that there is a lot of starch in the peas, that is, the product is overprumbed and it will be rigid.