Ok, I know they exist! I've been eating them since I was a kid, and I buy them fresh at a local supermarket.

However, Fitday has no entry for "snowpeas" or any variant of the name. USDA does NOT list snowpeas. Other nutritional data websites (no doubt all based on USDA) have also been a bust.

Does ANYONE have nutritional info for snowpeas?

It's possible they are simply called something else. For those not knowing what snowpeas are, they are flat pea pods, generally 2-3 inches in length, with little seeds inside (which, presumeably, would have grown into peas given the opportunity ).

The closest I can find description-wise on Fitday is "cowpeas, young pods with seeds", so I've been using that to get the carbs. However, I'm not sure that's accurate, and I really don't want to find out that they are packed with carbs!!

Yep!

http://www.lowcarb.ca/low-carb-tool...ch_type=by_item

Karen

Fitday is great in that it will do searches based on partial words. If you just type in "snow" ... you'll get a list of entries .. (one for snow cone, slurps ), and the rest for either snowpeas or snowpea (pea pod), cooked or raw or whatever. For our friends across the pond, snowpeas = mangetout.

That should save you having to enter as a custom item.


hth,

Doreen

I just typed 'snowpeas' into fitday and it has an entry?

Thanks for asking, I had been wondering about Fitday not having snowpeas either. Found them now!

Tiffany

Just wanted to let you know that I think snowpeas are referred to as snowpeas or sugar snap peas here. Mangetout is a different vegetable

Yes, I should've put in a hyphen Mange-tout.

from The Cook's Thesaurus:

It may vary from region to region, but here in NC sugar snap peas are not the same thing as snow peas. Snow peas are a flat pod with little tiny peas inside. Sugar snaps have a fatter pod and full-sized peas, but the pod is also edible.

This is really strange... I swear there was no entry for snowpeas yesterday!! I've been eating them every couple days over the past week or so, and have tried checking for them on several occasions by entering different variants of the name... but today they are indeed there. Hmmmm....

Karen -- actually, I did see that entry in the low-carb counter but wasn't sure if "Pea pods, edible" meant snowpeas. I thought it might just refer to eating peas in the pod.

Thanks all.

PS: Turns out they are very similar to the "cowpeas" entry I was using. but with more fibre.