The Bounciest The Best

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31071, 28 May 1966, Page 12

The Bounciest The Best

yjOST children, and not a few adults, experience some meal-time hazards with peas that tend to bounce off the plate on to the table or even the floor. Investigations at Britain's Fruit and Vegetable Research Centre in Gloucestershire show that peas that bounce well taste better, reported Denis Desoutter in the 8.8. C. World Service.

■The way in which the bounciness of a pea is put to good use is ingenious but simple. The peas arts carried

along on a moving belt until they drop off at the end. There they fall about three-and-a-half feet on to a sloping glass plate which bounces them outwards. In front of the glass plate is a tray with divisions at different distances. The more elastic peas bounce the farthest and end up in the farthest compartments, the least elastic ones end up in the nearest compartments. “Tasting tests show that this method of sorting is in line with human opinion—or that bite and bouncp can be equated.”