Sweet Pea in a Pod

Sweet pea

The sweet pea, Lathyrus odoratus, is a flowering plant in the genus Lathyrus in the family Fabaceae (legumes), native to Sicily, southern Italy and the Aegean Islands.

Sweetness

Sweetness is a basic taste most commonly perceived when eating foods rich in sugar. Sweet tastes are generally regarded as pleasurable. In addition to sugars like sucrose, many other chemical compounds are sweet, including aldehydes, ketones, and sugar alcohols. Some are sweet at very low concentrations, allowing their use as non-caloric sugar substitutes. Such non-sugar sweeteners include saccharin, aspartame, sucralose and stevia. Other compounds, such as miraculin, may alter perception of sweetness itself.

Pea

Pea is a pulse or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species. Peas are eaten as a vegetable. The pea is native to the Mediterranean region and southwest Asia, and cultivated nearly worldwide.

sweet

Adjective

1. Tasting of sugars.
2. Retaining a portion of sugar.

Interjection

1. Used as a positive response to good news or information.

pea

Symbol

1. ISO 639-3 language code for Peranakan Indonesian.

Noun

1. Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
2. A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.

pod

Symbol

1. Former ISO 639-3 language code for Ponares.

Noun

1. A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something.