Snow peas is a legume crop. It is a variety of pea eaten whole in its pod while still unripe. Snow peas have the thinner walls of two edible pods variants. This is the major difference between them and closed related garden peas which lacks edible pods. They are sources of vitamin A and C and is eaten as raw, lightly boiled, steamed or as stir fries. As a legume crop, they host beneficial bacterial, rhizobia in their root nodules which fix nitrogen in the soil (mutualistic relationship) and therefore a useful crop to grow inter-cropped with green leafy vegetables that benefit from high nitrogen content in the soil.
