In accordance with the world trends in exploitation of plant residues for obtaining valuable ingredients, the aim of this study was to optimize the extraction conditions of xylan from the hemicellulose fraction of the pea pod, with the potential usage in the food industry, as well as the other industries. Extraction conditions that were optimazed are: delignification, concentration of KOH in the alkal extraction and also the duration of this extractions. In the separated fractions of hemicellulose and cellulose using the HPLC method, with the previous PMP derivatization, the monomeric carbohydrate composition will be determined. Structural polysaccharides, whose composition is dominated by xylose and glucose (total glucan and total xylan) make approximately 41 % of dry matter of the raw material. The content of xylan in pea pod is 11.7 %, or approximately one quarter of the share of structural polysaccharides. Three fractions were isolated using different extraction conditions: the soluble and the insoluble hemicellulose and the cellulose residue. In most samples, utilization of xylose in the soluble and the insoluble hemicellulose fraction after a series of extraction steps was about 100 % of the initially present xylose, meaning there was no significant degradation of xylan during the extraction procedures applied. Delignification of samples, which helped the extraction of hemicellulose, had a great influence on such high utilization rates. The change in KOH (2M and 4M) and alkaline extraction time (2h and 4h) did not have a significant effect on xylan extraction. Pea pod is a good source of xylan, which is mostly separated in the insoluble hemicellulose fraction of hompolymeric composition.