Thousands of garden peas and petits pois are due to be picked by pea producer Birds Eye as part of a military style operation, to ensure that the veg goes from picked to frozen in fewer than two and a half hours.
Brits eat 150 million kilos of garden peas and petits pois every year. Last year, Birds Eye sold 233,724,881,710 peas. The UK is the largest producer of peas for freezing in Europe, growing around 35,000 hectares of vining peas each year.
This year’s harvest is expected to see a return to better conditions following the devastating downpours that impacted harvest last summer. It’s estimated that the washout hit UK pea production by as much as 45%.
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