Any seeds go thru a process where the original simple sugars turn into
starch .
Peas lentils chickpeas in their green stage are very much like a fruit easy
to digest in the raw state, once they get ripe and drying out, the starch
content  and the enzyme inhibitor make them indigestible. At this stage they
require cooking or sprouting to start again the metabolic processes that
bring them out of their dormant stage. ( starch turning into sugar again).
So a dry pea being unedible raw will make it not paleo?!
Jean-claude


>Trish Tipton wrote:
>
>> i now know i can not make split pea soup from my left over ham.  =o]
>> I'm glad I asked and waited for answers before buying dried peas.
>
>What makes dried peas any "worse" than any other kinds of peas?
>
>--
>Deanna