Red Bell Pepper

Bell pepper
Green, yellow, and red bell peppers
Species	Capsicum annuum
Heat	None
Scoville scale	0 SHU

Red bell pepper

Peppers are actually fruits because they are produced from a flowering plant and contains seeds- most people think of them as vegetables. Red, orange, and yellow bell peppers are actually very ripe green bell peppers. Red bell peppers are sweeter than green ones because bell peppers sweeten as they ripen.  Green bell peppers are the most popular type of pepper in the US. Red bell peppers have more than twice the vitamin C of a green pepper. Bell peppers are a good source of Vitamin A. The scientific name for bell peppers is Capsicum annum. Capsicums are what peppers are called in Australia.

Interesting facts about Red Bell Pepper

• Red bell pepper tastes sweet
• Sweet red pepper is simply a mature green bell pepper
• Red bell peppers have a bell shape
• Sweet bell peppers come in all of the rainbow of colors including green, red, yellow, purple and even brown.
• The red, yellow and green peppers in packs of three and call them “traffic light peppers”

Stuffed Bell Pepper

• Red bell peppers are the sweetest of all the colors?
• By weight, a sweet red bell pepper contains three times as much vitamin C as a citrus fruit such as an orange? (One serving or ½ cup, about 5 strips, provides 100 percent of your daily requirement of vitamin C!
• Red bell peppers contain the antioxidant, lycopene? (Lycopene is an antioxidant that may help reduce the risks of cancer and other diseases.)

See also

• List of Capsicum cultivars
• Paprika
• Scoville scale
• Stuffed peppers