Crop is very useful as a green manure, and leafy prostrate cvs reduce soil erosion. Folk Medicine Cowpeas are sacred to Hausa and Yoruba tribes, and are prescribed for sacrifices to abate evil and to pacify the spirits of sickly children. 1.4 g fat, 61.0 g total carbohydrate, 5.4g fiber. Although much variation occurs, cowpeas are deficient in cystine, methionine, and tryptophan. Fe, 0.35 mg thiamine, 0.18 mg riboflavin, 1.1 mg niacin, and 36 mg ascorbic acid.
Digestibility is improved by grinding the seeds into a fine powder.
Seeds contain a trypsin inhibitor, a chymotrypsin inhibitor and a cyanogen in concentrations of ca. Fl. early summer. Gub-gub' is an excellent table cv. Assigned to the African and Hindustani Centers of Diversity, cowpea or cvs thereof as reported to exhibit tolerance to aluminum, drought, high pH, heat, laterite, low pH, nematodes, poor soil, shade, slope. Distribution Of ancient culture in Africa and Asia, and widespread in Africa, spreading by way of Egypt or Arabia to Asia and the Mediterranean.