Sentences with phrase «because pea plants»

I decided to expand my thoughts, first expressed here, about the NYT column by Professor Michael Marder claiming that it is unethical to eat peas because pea plants can communicate chemically.

Not exact matches

Renninger chose to work with pea protein because it's the most abundant and accessible plant protein that isn't soy, which Lowry says has a lot of consumer baggage.

In the short term, MycoTechnology is working with a third party toller to manufacture PureTaste on a commercial scale, and says the price will be a bit cheaper than whey protein but a bit higher than plant - based proteins such as pea, but said this was warranted because it had a superior nutritional profile and organoleptic qualities.

Had some sugar - snap peas and snow peas in our garden - not many because the backyard critters upset the plants.

Because it has an incomplete amino acid profile (see above), any decent protein powder containing pea protein should also include another plant protein source.

My childhood memories are full of wet, green springs planting seeds with my parents and grandparents; of sun - splashed summers picking strawberries and canning the fruits of our labor; of crisp autumn mornings gleaning peas and picking apples; and long, dark winters in front of a fire, our bellies full and content with the knowledge, that because of our hard work, we would never go hungry.

In a field study, Losey found that the ladybugs eat more red aphids because these stand out against the green pea plant.

«In some years, the older varieties of pea weren't growing very well because of heat stress,» says Rosalind Bueckert, a plant scientist at the University of Saskatchewan.

Beans, peas and intact whole grains contain resistant starch, because the starch is protected by the seed or hull of the plants such that the starch is not digested in the small intestine — it reaches the large intestine and is called «resistant starch».

Pea protein, however, is a standout exception because it's rich in all nine essential amino acids except for methionine, which is easy to correct for by including small amounts of animal protein in your diet or even other plant proteins like rice protein.