Peppers

[GK Fanatic]

Anyone know how we get red yellow and green peppers, does one pepper go from one colour to the next or are they separate plants. I know which is right but I'm trying to convince a friend !!!!

[capper1985]

The color can be green, red, yellow, orange and, more rarely, white, purple and brown depending on when they are harvested.

Green peppers are unripe bell peppers, while the others are all ripe, with the color variation due to cultivar selection.

Because they are unripe, green peppers are less sweet and slightly more bitter than yellow, orange, or red peppers, which all taste similar.

The taste of ripe peppers can also vary with growing conditions and post-harvest storage treatment; the sweetest are fruit allowed to ripen fully on the plant in full sunshine, while fruit harvested green and after-ripened in storage are less sweet.

Peppers were grown in Central and South America in pre-Columbian times. Pepper seeds were later carried to Spain in 1493 and from there spread to other European and Asian countries.

[WendyS]

If you buy seeds of varieties of red pepper, the fruit starts off green, and then gradually turn brownish red, and finally to bright red.

Other varieties stay green. Some varieties ripen to either an orange or yellow colour . . I don't know of any pepper which goes from green to yellow to orange to red when it's ripe.

However, the Hungarian Wax variety of chilli starts off light green It then turns respectively yellow to orange to red when it ripens.

[GK Fanatic]

Now I'm confused because I thought they were all one seed. Thanks

[capper1985]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_pepper