Dry Peas
Yellow and green field peas — whole or split, for food, feed and fractionation. Dry peas are the volume backbone of the pulse trade. Yellow peas dominate because they feed three different demand streams: direct human consumption, compound animal feed, and the fractionation plants that split the seed into protein, starch and fibre. Green peas are a smaller, more appearance-driven market where colour bleaching in storage is a real commercial risk.
At a glance
- Product
- Dry Peas
- Grades
- Yellow peas — whole · Yellow peas — split +3 more
- Typical applications
- Split pea and dal production · Pulse protein, starch and fibre fractionation · Compound animal feed and aquafeed
- Packaging
- 25 kg and 50 kg woven polypropylene bags · 1,000 kg bulk bags · Bulk in lined containers or vessel parcels
- • Certificate of Analysis is provided against the confirmed shipment, grade and batch.
- • Manufacturer TDS and SDS are subject to grade and supplier confirmation and are available on request.
- • Grades, packaging and origin above are indicative sourcing options and are confirmed at quotation.
Available grades from container-direct sourcing
Yellow peas — whole
The main traded class; food, feed and fractionation use.
Yellow peas — split
Dehulled and split for dal, soups and instant products.
Green peas — whole
Appearance-sensitive; colour retention is the commercial risk.
Green peas — split
Split pea soup and dry-mix applications.
Feed peas
Wider defect tolerance; bought on protein and energy value.
Typical applications
- Split pea and dal production
- Pulse protein, starch and fibre fractionation
- Compound animal feed and aquafeed
- Snack and extruded product formulation
- Canning and soup manufacture
Why Canadian buyers choose us
- Enquiries quoted against your specification — class, grade and presentation, not a fixed stock list
- Specification, origin, availability and certification confirmed in writing at quotation
- Supplier documentation (COA, SDS, technical data) provided for the grade actually offered
- One point of contact from enquiry through documents, packing and shipment
- Quantities reviewed per enquiry, from bagged lots to full container and vessel programmes
Typical industries served
Material identity
Dry Peas — identifiers and the names buyers use
Also searched as
Industry terminology
Identifiers are published for material identification. The exact specification of any offered grade is confirmed against supplier documentation at quotation.
Buyer intent coverage
Dry Peas — what it is, where it is used, how it is chosen
Dry peas move in three distinct demand streams: traditional food use as whole and split peas, industrial fractionation into pea protein, starch and fibre, and pet food and feed use. Each stream specifies differently, and a lot that suits a split-pea packer may be wrong for a protein plant. Canada is a leading producer and exporter, which puts Canadian processors close to origin for domestic supply while imported specialty types serve particular ethnic and industrial requirements. Colour, splitting yield and protein content are the axes most buyers actually purchase against.
Primary uses
- Primary feedstock for pea protein, starch and fibre fractionation
- Soup and ready-meal staple in whole and split forms
- Retail and foodservice pulse staple
Applications
- Pea protein, starch and fibre processing
- Split pea soup and ready-meal manufacturing
- Retail repacking and foodservice supply
- Export container programmes
Advantages
- Serves food, plant-protein fractionation and pet-food demand from a single widely grown crop
- Strong Canadian production base gives domestic processors short supply lines for standard types
- Whole and split forms with clear colour classes make specification straightforward once the end use is stated
Limitations to consider
- Fractionation buyers and food packers want different attributes, so the end use must be declared up front
- Splitting yield and colour retention vary with crop year and storage conditions
- Bleaching of green peas in storage and transit is a recognised appearance issue in the retail trade
- Purity, admixture, foreign matter, defect percentages, moisture, size or count grade, colour value and every other numeric axis are properties of one shipment from one facility. They are read from the supplier specification and the certificate of analysis for the exact lot offered, and are confirmed against a shipment sample rather than quoted here from memory.
How to choose the right grade
- Declare the end use — food packing, fractionation or feed — because it changes which lots are suitable
- State the colour class and the whole-or-split form explicitly rather than relying on the commodity name
- Where protein content drives your process economics, make it an explicit specification axis in the enquiry
- A pre-shipment sample approved by your own quality team is the only honest way to qualify a lot of an agricultural commodity. Colour, aroma, cooking behaviour and processing yield vary between crops, facilities and even between lots from the same facility, so approval works against a retained sample rather than against a description.
- Origin and crop year are the two variables that move this market most, and both belong to the specific lot being offered rather than to a web page. Buyers search by origin because origin changes appearance, behaviour and price, but the origin, harvest period and crop year of any material quoted are confirmed in the offer and in the shipping documents, never assumed from a category page.
- Exact specification is confirmed against supplier documentation at quotation.
Typical grades
- Sizing and grading descriptions used in the origin market for this pulse, confirmed per offer
- Whole versus split versus decorticated offers, which are specified and priced differently
- Cleaning descriptions — machine cleaned, sortex, double sortex — as the supplier declares them
- Certified lots (organic, Halal, Kosher, non-GMO) where the supplying facility holds the certification for that lot
- Organic, Halal, Kosher, non-GMO, gluten-free and food-safety scheme certifications belong to a producing facility and to a specific lot, and they lapse, change scope and vary by shipment. State the certifications your customer or regulator requires at the enquiry stage so they are verified against current certificates for the offered material rather than assumed.
- Availability, price and quality follow the crop calendar of the producing origin, and the position of an offer in that calendar matters as much as the specification. New-crop and carry-over material behave differently in storage and in process, so the crop year is confirmed per shipment rather than treated as a constant.
Comparable materials — how Dry Peas sits against alternatives
- Yellow versus green peas depending on the finished product colour requirement
- Whole versus split peas depending on the plant process
- Lentils or chickpeas where the formulation permits another pulse
- Buyers looking for an alternative or second-source supplier should state the incumbent origin, the specification currently accepted and the property that must be matched. Two lots that share a commodity name are not commercially equivalent: origin, processing and crop year all shift performance, so a trial shipment or approved sample precedes a changeover.
Comparable-material reference. Grade selection is confirmed at RFQ against your process.
Procurement coverage
How to specify, order and receive Dry Peas
Written for procurement, quality and technical buyers in Canada and the United States. No numeric price, MOQ, stock or lead-time value is published — those are confirmed per shipment in the quotation and against the confirmed batch.
How buyers specify at RFQ
- Whole, split, decorticated or polished form, and the sizing description the trade uses
- Purity, foreign material, splits and defect tolerances as declared for the lot
- Colour and appearance expectations, which drive acceptance in retail and repack channels
- Moisture and infestation control condition as declared and documented per shipment
- Cooking behaviour where the buyer's product depends on it, confirmed against a shipment sample
- Origin, crop year and processing facility as declared by the supplier
- The exact commodity, form and processing state your plant needs — whole, split, ground, hulled, milled or kernel
- The specification axes that decide acceptance in your process, and the tolerances your programme applies to them
- The origin or origins you can accept, and any origin your customer excludes
- The certifications and food-safety documentation required before the material can be used
- The pack format and delivery point your site can physically receive
- Exact specification is confirmed against supplier documentation at quotation.
Packaging options (industry-standard)
- Woven polypropylene, jute or multiwall paper bags in the formats the supplier packs
- Bulk bags (FIBC / tote) where the receiving plant can handle them
- Retail and catering pack formats where the supplier operates a packing line
- Container stuffing arrangement — palletised or floor-loaded — agreed per shipment
- Packaging options and available pack sizes are confirmed with each quotation.
Storage & handling
- Store sealed, dry, off the floor and away from strong-smelling materials; agricultural commodities pick up odour readily
- Control temperature and humidity in line with what the supplier states for the commodity and pack
- Rotate by receipt date and record the lot number used against each production batch
- Maintain a pest-management programme and inspect incoming containers before unloading
- Stored food commodities age and are vulnerable to moisture, odour pickup and infestation. Storage conditions, rotation discipline and pest-management controls at your own warehouse determine whether a good lot stays good, and treatment history at origin is confirmed in the documentation rather than assumed.
- Long ocean transit and Canadian winter conditions both affect agricultural material: moisture migration, condensation in containers, freezing and temperature swings during inland delivery all change the condition of a lot between loading and receipt. Container preparation, liners and desiccant use are agreed with the supplier before shipment rather than debated afterwards.
Documentation available
- Supplier specification sheet for the exact lot offered, stating the axes the supplier declares
- Certificate of analysis (COA) for the shipped lot, covering the parameters your programme requires
- Certificate of origin and shipping documents for the specific consignment
- Phytosanitary, fumigation or treatment documentation where the destination or the buyer requires it
- Certification documents (organic, Halal, Kosher, non-GMO) where the lot is offered as certified
- Food-safety scheme certification for the producing or packing facility where your programme requires it
- Documentation is confirmed per batch at quotation; availability depends on the grade and supplier offered.
- Ask for the documentation pack against the exact lot at the enquiry stage rather than after the vessel sails. Documentation availability differs by origin, facility and destination requirement, and in traded food commodities the paperwork is part of the goods: a lot without the documents your programme requires cannot be used, whatever its physical quality.
- Microbiological limits, mycotoxin and pesticide-residue requirements, heavy-metal limits and allergen controls are set by your own food-safety programme and by the Canadian regulator, not by a supplier's habit. Agree the testing regime, the sampling plan and who pays for what before the shipment moves, because a rejection at destination is far more expensive than a test at origin.
RFQ checklist for dry-peas
Include these fields to receive an accurate Canada-landed quotation
- The exact commodity, form and specification required, and the incumbent origin where there is one
- Volume per shipment and expected annual usage, so the offer is built on real consumption
- Crop year position you need, and whether carry-over material is acceptable
- Certification and documentation set required before the material can be used
- Pack format your plant or warehouse can physically receive and handle
- Delivery point in Canada and the incoterm the comparison should be made on
- Sampling and approval process, including who approves the pre-shipment sample
- Whether the material feeds food packing, protein fractionation or pet food, and the colour class required
- Landed cost in Canada is decided by pack format, container utilisation, port of discharge, drayage and receiving arrangements as much as by unit price. Offers are compared delivered to your plant or warehouse, in the same incoterm and the same pack, or the comparison is not a comparison.
Technical & procurement detail
What this product is and what decides quality+
Dry peas are the volume backbone of the pulse trade. Yellow peas dominate because they feed three different demand streams: direct human consumption, compound animal feed, and the fractionation plants that split the seed into protein, starch and fibre. Green peas are a smaller, more appearance-driven market where colour bleaching in storage is a real commercial risk. Grade selection matters more than most first-time buyers expect. A food-grade specification controls colour, splits, defects and foreign material tightly; a feed-grade specification is far more tolerant on appearance but still needs a protein basis and a mycotoxin position. Buying food grade for a feed application is a straightforward waste of money, and buying feed grade for a food line will fail at your first customer audit. If your process splits or mills the peas, the useful specification is not the visual grade — it is moisture, seed size uniformity and hardness, because those three drive dehulling yield.
Types, classes and grades+
Yellow peas — whole: The main traded class; food, feed and fractionation use. Yellow peas — split: Dehulled and split for dal, soups and instant products. Green peas — whole: Appearance-sensitive; colour retention is the commercial risk. Green peas — split: Split pea soup and dry-mix applications. Feed peas: Wider defect tolerance; bought on protein and energy value.
Specification basis+
Purity — Typically 99 %+ for food grade; wider tolerance for feed grade. Moisture — Normally 13–14 % maximum at loading. Protein — Commonly quoted around 20–26 % on a dry basis; confirmed per lot. Defects — Splits, bleached seed and foreign material specified per contract. Processing — Cleaned and gravity separated; colour sorted for food grade. Values vary by grade, crop year and supplier and are confirmed against supplier documentation at quotation.
Supply and origin context+
Canada is among the largest producers and exporters of field peas globally, again centred on Saskatchewan and Alberta. Domestic pulse fractionation capacity has grown substantially, which means yellow peas leave the country both as raw seed and as protein, starch and fibre fractions. For an overseas buyer this creates a genuine choice: import the seed and process it locally, or import the finished fraction. The right answer depends on your local processing cost and on the duty treatment of raw versus processed pulse products in your market. Origin, availability, grade and certification are confirmed at quotation for the lot actually offered — origin is a supply attribute, never an assumed property of the product.
Commercial and shipping notes+
Feed and food grades are contracted separately and should never be blended in one booking. · Fractionation buyers should state target dehulling yield expectations up front so seed size can be matched. · Quoted FOB, CFR or CIF; bulk vessel parcels considered on volume.
Documentation+
Commonly relevant documentation: Certificate of Analysis · Phytosanitary Certificate · Certificate of Origin · Non-GMO declaration where applicable · Independent survey certificate on request. Availability is confirmed per order and per destination.
Frequently asked questions
What should the first enquiry for dry peas include?+
State the quantity, the destination, the presentation you need and the parameters you buy on — purity, moisture, protein, defects, processing. With those in the enquiry we can return a quotation instead of a list of questions.
Which types or grades of dry peas are available?+
Yellow peas — whole, Yellow peas — split, Green peas — whole, Green peas — split, Feed peas. All of these are grades of the same product rather than separate products; the grade is fixed at quotation.
What packaging options are available?+
25 kg and 50 kg woven polypropylene bags · 1,000 kg bulk bags · Bulk in lined containers or vessel parcels. Packaging is confirmed at quotation, because it affects both protection in transit and freight cost.
Where does the material originate?+
Origin, availability, grade and certification are confirmed at quotation for the lot actually offered — origin is a supply attribute, never an assumed property of the product.
Technical knowledge for Dry Peas — Yellow & Green Field Peas | Allzone
Engineering and purchasing guidance written for this material — understand it, apply it, compare options, specify a grade, and fix production problems.
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