Peas are taken out pods but green beans aren’t. What is the reason for this?
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Green beans are picked fresh and young, and most importantly before the beans have fully developed. That’s why there’s so much flesh to the jacket and the beans are small. If you were to leave them on the vine, at the end of summer you’d have much more bean (but it will be much harder, and drier), much less jacket.
The traditional species of plant for peas produces a pod that is tough and fiberous. In general it’s not very good to eat, but other species aka “cultivars” are able to be eaten pod and all; The snow peas or sweet peas are two examples.
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