Sugar Pea (both Sugar Snap Pea and Snow Pea)

Also Edible-Podded Pea; Snow Pea is also called Mangetout, Chinese Snow Pea, and Chinese Pea

Snow peas and sugar snap peas (although Sugar Snap, properly speaking, only applies to one cultivar, the term is now used to mean any pea of this type) are both edible-podded (or sugar) peas. They differ from shelling peas in that the pods do not develop a tough, supportive lining (an alternative French name for the group is pois sans parchemin, or peas without parchment). As a result, the entire vegetable is tender-edible. Ribbon-flat snow peas must be harvested when the immature peas are the size of peppercorns and the translucent straight-sided pods show only a suggestion of bumps within, or the whole will be fibrous and starchy. Sugar snap peas develop fat peas that tightly fill the curved, thick-walled pods, but both remain sweet and tender when mature.