Market Quality of Fresh Sweet Pea in Chiang Mai

Abstract

Market quality of small pod type sugar pea was studied during January – April 1982. The pea which was obtained from wholesalers and farms and farms in Chiang Mai consisted of tenderly immature, optimally mature and over mature pods. They were <0.5, 0.5-0.75 and >0.75 cm thick; and weighed 1.5-2.0 >2.0-2.5 and >2.5-3.0 g/pod. The over mature ones yielded a recovery of approximately 50% edible Seeds. It was noted that the 10 samples had an average of tenderly immature and optimally mature pods, over mature and damaged pods of 71.5, 22.9 and 5.5 %, respectively.