Vol. 10, Issue 8 (2021)

Author(s):
AK Senapati, AK Varshney, VK Shrama, S Patel, M Varma and PR Pandey

Abstract:
The investigation on various physical dimensions of green peas (Pisum sativum L) was conducted in which included two pre treatments (un-blanched and blanched). Matured fresh green peas were procured from APMC market, Navsari and deshelled manually to prepare samples. Green peas were blanched at 85 °C for 1 min and cooled in running water and removed the surface moisture. The physical dimensions of unblanched and blanched fresh green peas in terms of physical parameters such as test weight (g), size and shape, sphericity, volume (cm³), shrinkage ratio were studied. The average test weight (1000 seed), mean length, width, thickness, arithmetic mean diameter, geometric mean diameter and sphericity of green peas were 516.2 g, 11.34 mm, 10.82 mm, 10.38 mm, 10.84 mm, 10.85 mm and 0.942, respectively. The average surface areas, volume, shrinkage ratio of green peas were 258.68 mm², 99.97 cm³ and 1.0, respectively.