Today is: Green Peppers Day

Sweet bell peppers, green, yellow and red, are for sale at the West Palm Beach Green Market.

Green peppers, known as green bell peppers or green sweet peppers, have their day today. There are other colors of bell peppers, including red, yellow, and orange, but just the green are celebrated today. Although considered vegetables in the culinary world, they actually are fruit. They are part of the Grossum cultivar group of the Capsicum annuum species, which are part of the Solanaceae family, or nightshades. Native to the tropics of the Americas, they were introduced to Europe and Asia by Spanish and Portuguese explorers in the late 15th century. They spread from there and are now grown around the world.

Green peppers have dark, glossy skin that is smooth and firm. They are juicy and crisp to the bite, and mildly bitter, not as sweet in flavor as other bell peppers.

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