All Peas, Lentils, Chickpeas and Broad Beans

Gathers the cool-season pulses of the Mediterranean and Near Eastern farming tradition. It includes chickpea, lentil, red lentil, split pea, green pea, marrowfat pea, grass pea, bitter vetch, pigeon pea, fava bean and lupin bean, and gram flour, which is milled from chickpeas. Within the Legumes and Legume Products subcategory it sits beside the groups Soybeans and Soy Products, Peanuts and Groundnuts, New World Beans, Asian and African Beans, Pod Fruits, Tree Legumes and Legume Gums, and each entry is placed in the one group whose description fits it best.