Chinese Snow Pea Leaves Nutrition Facts, Benefits, Micronutrients

Snow pea leaves are also familiar with name as Chinese snow pea tips or snow pea shoots. They appear on pea plant at very initial stage of plant growth.

Such leaves are considered one of those leaf categories that are highly nutritious, delicious  and easy to cook and eat. Peaople in the united states are very rare to chose this as their meal.

Page Contents Snow Pea Leaf Nutrition Facts Snow Pea Leaves Taste and Appearance Speckled Pea Microgreens Nutrition Macronutrients Distribution Health Benefits of Pea Shoots Are Snow Pea Leaves Good for You   Can You Eat Snow Pea Leaves Raw Footnote

Snow Pea Leaf Nutrition Facts

The snow pea greens are filled with high amount of vitamin A and C, folate, fiber, and beta carotenoids. They are considered as natural immunity booster and are micronutrient rich source. pea shoots nutrition

The fact is that nutrients they are absorbed with are way more than a normal fruit and are counted as the best greens to add in summer weight loss meals.

They are best for weight lose diet because of the fact they do not have sodium as a nutrient in them as sodium is proved itself a highly non nutritious and unhealthy micronutrient because of the fact that it manipulated the body to retain a lot of water and fats from the diet we eat.

Snow Pea Leaves Taste and Appearance

Their presentation looks very similar to spinach when cooked, are very delicious when combined with garlic and are highly recommended to add in keto diet.

After they are cooked, their resemblance is very much closer to the spinach leaves, are very tasty and recommended to add in carb cycling diets.

Speckled Pea Microgreens Nutrition

Vitamin A	–
Vitamin B12	417mcg
Vitamin B6	250 mg
Vitamin C	6667 mg
Vitamin K	2.7 mcg
Vitamin E	44 mg
Vitamin D	8.9 mcg

Macronutrients Distribution

Carbohydrates	3g/cup serving
Protein	0g/cup serving
Fats	0g/cup servng

How to Select to Add in Meal

Grocery markets putting regularly polythene packaged snow pea leaflets on their shelves due to the increased awareness of this green from past few years.

Some organic stores in the US also selling by preserving them in a dried form, this preservation method is one of the most popular ancient preservation method which need no any organic chemical.

Before you pick a package from a market, prefer to select the package with bright green colored shoots and ignore packages along with brownish shoot as they lost their nutrition due to the microorganism growth on them with time.

All with this, do make sure the package you are picking is not with curly and bubbly pea leaves because they are not suitable for weak stomach as they are not easy to chew and digest.

Health Benefits of Pea Shoots

• Some biggest benefits includes they are best for obese people due to the fact they have dietary fiber in them which promotes smooth and bowel movement.

• Vitamin B12 and B6 in them are helpful in makin a maintained metabolism at an optimized pace, which helps immune system to operate properly.

• With this, vitamin B12 encourages the body to make more WBCs which are considered too as immunity booster/enhancers.

• Vuitamin K maintains a healthy platelets amount in the body which are great considered as great factors for clotting the blood at wounded regions of the body.

• Body utilizes the vitamin c from the blood in regenerating and repairing internally and externally the cellular parts and also in maintaining a good bone health. All these nutrient goes in our blood through food we eat and then body utilizes them taking from the blood stream.

• Brain and cardiovascular functions are maintained and enhanced by the biody by using vitamin D. This vitamin also suppresses the cancer producing genes in the body.

How To Cook Snow Pea leaves

1. Prepare pea leaves in a large pot or some type of container for at least 1 hour. Then, wash them thoroughly two or three times until all the dirt and sand have been removed. Drain off the water.
2. Using extremely high heat, heat a mixture of oil and water in your wok until it just starts to smoke a bit. Quickly add the garlic and stir through, taking care not to burn it by constantly stirring. Then toss in the vegetables and continue to cook for another minute, followed by the addition of salt, cracked brown pepper, and sesame oil. Stir the mixture well.
3. Transfer the wok to the stove for about 30 seconds or even a minute. Turn off the burner, and remove the wok from the burner.

Are Snow Pea Leaves Good for You  

Such leaves are a kind of under rated greens yet powerful nutritional source of nutrition. Give it a try, because nutrition from same or repeated ingredients is medically not a good thing which can create many ailments to one.

According to researchers in NIH, nutrition from different sources is a great way to stay fit.

There are many myths about these leaves that eating them can cause inflammation inside body, but this is totally a wrong concept, but do remember, anything (not only snow pea leaves) taken in excess amount can cause any kind of disturbance to the body.

 Prefer the intake in summer, including such leaves many other greens are not suitable to many people in winter. Remember, if you already have a serious kind of health problem, do consult to your nutritionist before eating such leaves.

Can You Eat Snow Pea Leaves Raw

The simple answer is Yes, these can be consumed in raw form, half cooked, with salad, or in with the combination of any other vegetable. In short all are good ways.

But do remember any food when cooked for long on high temperature lose its original nutrition because the chemical structure of the nutrients inside alters at high temperature.

Footnote

Snow pea leaves are considered one of the best minimalist nutrition green edibles and are very helpful in increasing and optimizing metabolic rate which helps in losing belly and overall body fat deposits. We should add such sprouts in our meals to shuffle our nutrient source which is a good health practice for our body to avoid or come out of plateau state (a state in which body don’t properly absorbs nutrients from food).