DESCRIPTION Product: Red Bell Peppers Latin Name: Capsicum annum Plant Family: Solanaceae Other Names: Sweet Pepper, Red Pepper, Red Capsicum, Peperfrugt, Poivron Rouge, Paprika, Peperone Dolce, Sladká Paprika, Sød Peber, Dolĉa Pipro, Pimenta Doce, Ardei Dulce, Ngọt Ngào Tiêu, Pimento & Pimiento. Description: Our dried Red Bell Peppers are chopped, cored and prepared for your convenience; they can be added to soups, stews, casseroles in place of fresh peppers. Bell peppers come from a short lived perennial bushy plant, which is commercially treated as an annual plant, which is a member of the same family that the potato and chilli pepper comes from. They are native to South and Central American but are cultivated all over the temperate world. They grow to a height of 30-90cm and have a bushy habit; the leaves are oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate in shape, 3- 10cm in length and medium green in colour. The flowers appear in clusters or singularly dependant on the cultivar and are greenish-white to yellowish-green in colour, stalked and 8-9mm in diameter. Flowers give rise to fruits which have 3-4 lobes and are plump and ‘bell shaped and 10-20cm in length, initially green ripening to red. Interesting Fact: Did you know that red peppers contain twice the amount of vitamin C than a green pepper does? They also contain antioxidants, phytonutrients and are a good source of vitamins including the B-complex, C and E and minerals including copper, iron, potassium, manganese, magnesium, selenium and zinc. Bell peppers also contain a good selection of carotenoids including alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, lycopene, lutein, cryptoxanthin and zeaxanthin, red and orange fruits and vegetables have a higher percentage of carotenoids than other vegetables.
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