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Bell Peppers
Bell peppers are sort of bell shaped – if you cut off the bottom and hold them by the stem you can kind of see it. What they also are is crunchy and sweet with a slightly bitter taste.
With peppers, beauty really is skin deep. Slice open a pepper and you’ll find an open cavity with some seeds clinging to the core and sides. Rinse it out, slice it up, and you’ve got a great snack or salad ingredient.
Bell peppers are not hot peppers. Hot peppers contain capsaicin; bell peppers don’t.
Pepper Nutrition:
Brace yourself: Guess who has more than 100% of the vitamin C and A you need to eat daily? One cup of chopped red pepper, that’s who. Red peppers are also an excellent source for B6 and some beta-carotene, and green peppers give you fiber, folate, vitamin K, molybdenum and manganese.
Factoids!
- Want to serve a salad that’s not only nutritious but beautiful, too? Add a red, yellow, orange or purple pepper! (They also come in green, brown and nearly black!).
- Bell peppers originated in South America, and were carried back to Europe and the rest of the world by Spanish and Portuguese explorers.
