Snow pea (Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon), Sugar snaps (Pisum sativum var. saccharatum) and garden pea are members of the Fabaceae (formally Leguminosae) family. Also known as legume family which consists of over seventeen thousand species distributed throughout the temperate, subtropical and tropical zones of the world. The most prominent feature of legume family is the ability of fixing atmospheric nitrogen into a plant useable form with the aid of bacteria living in root nodules