Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You snack on bell peppers, you love the heat of jalapeño in homemade watermelon salsa and you’ve dabbled with poblanos, but you’re ...

Bell peppers aren’t just colorful—they’re a nutritional rainbow with unique flavors and benefits at every stage of ripeness.

Bell peppers are a staple in fajitas, burritos and salads, but did you know they’re not a vegetable? So, does that change anything from a nutrition perspective? Here’s what a registered dietitian told ...

In the world’s plant gene banks, scientists studied how so many varieties of the humble capsicum worked their way onto our plates. By Veronique Greenwood Peppers are cosmopolitan, a vegetable that ...

Characteristics: Bell peppers are large compared to other hot peppers, and can be green, yellow, orange and red (and sometimes purple) in color. They’re not fully ripe in their green state, so they ...