More peas, please! 17 delicious ways to devour Britain’s most brilliant vegetable
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https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/oct/18/peas-17-recipes-britain-forgotten-vegetable
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They’re healthy, versatile, sustainable and available. Yet pea consumption in the UK is at a 50-year low. Here are the curries, dips, pasta dishes and even cakes that could turn all that around It’s not good news for the pea farmers: pea consumption in the UK has fallen to a 50-year low. According to data from Defra, the average Briton ate just 37g of peas per week in 2025 , down from 144g per week in 1975. Though a classic British staple, peas are not for everybody. Apparently only 22% of gen Z associate peas with Britain at all (which is patently ridiculous: 90% of the peas we consume in the UK are grown here, while we produce about 160,000 tonnes for freezing alone each year). Continue reading...
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