Sweet Pepper is a small, branched, mostly erect, annual or perennial herbaceous shrub that prefers deep, well-structured, fertile, well drained, friable, sandy loam to grow well. It has mild, sweet flavor and wonderful taste which is brilliant for almost all food items around the world. Apart from its health promoting benefits it is found used in several traditional medicines since ancient times. It is a miraculous vegetable native to central and South America and is extended throughout the world due to its amazing health benefits.
| Name | Sweet peppers |
|---|---|
| Scientific Name | Capsicum annuum |
| Native | Central and South America |
| Common/English Name | African Pepper, Bell Pepper, Capsicum Pepper, Cayenne, Cayenne Pepper, Cherry Pepper, Chili, Chili Pepper, Chilli, Chilly Pepper, Chitlepin, Christmas Pepper, Cone Pepper, Green Capsicum, Green Pepper, Halapenos, Hungarian Pepper, Jalapeno Pepper, Long Pepper, Mississippi Sport Pepper, Numex, Ornamental Pepper, Paprika, Pimento Pepper, Pod Pepper, Red Cone Pepper, Red Pepper, Sweet Pepper, Wrinkled Pepper. |
| Name in Other Languages | Tajik : Qalamfur Afrikaans : Rissie Malaysia : Cabai Albanian : Specë Nepal : Bhede Khursani Arabic : Fulful Baladî Polish : Papryka Azeri : İstiot Greek : Pipera Belgium : Peper Icelandic : Paprikuduft Croatian : Paprika Slovašcina : Paprika Czech : Paprika Egypt : Felfel Achdar Basque : Piperrautsa Finnish : Paprika Swiss : Poivre D’espagne Philippines : Sili ( Bikol ) French : Piment Annuel Portuguese : Colorau Galician : Pementón Austria : Paprika Georgian : Bulgaruli Breton : Pimant Dous Hebrew : Pilpel Amharic : Yafranj Karya Hungarian : Bell Paprika Tigrinya : Gue Lebanese : Felfel Lelece Macedonia : Piper India : Molar ( Gujarati ) Swedish : Paprika Indonesia : Cabai Dutch : Paprika Brazil : Pimenta Iraq : Filfil Spanish : Ají Chinese : Chiao-Tzu Italian : Peperone Turkish : Biber Esperanto : Paprika Kazakh : Burış Yiddish : Paprike Korean : Namcho Estonian : Harilik Parika Laos : Mak Pet Nyai German : Cayennepfeffer Latvian : Dārzeņpipari Vietnamese : Ot Romanian : Ardei Lithuanian : Paprika Uzbek : Qalampir Maldive Islands : Rihamirus ( Dhivehi ) Swahili : Mpilipili Maltese : Bżar Ikkulurit Catalan : Pebrotera Farsi : Paprika Norwegian : Paprika Papiamento : Promenton Quechuan : Uchu Armenian : Garmir Bghbegh Russian : Perets Krasnyj Danish : Chilipeber Serbian : Paprika Japanese : Banshō Thai : Prik Yuak Bulgarian : Cherven Piper |
| Plant Growth Habit | Small, branched, mostly erect, annual or perennial herbaceous shrub |
| Growing Climate | Warm-season crop, which performs well under an extended frost-free season |
| Soil | Deep, well-structured, fertile, well drained, friable, sandy loam |
| Plant Size | 30–80cm tall |
| Root | Short or deep tap root and may extend 20 to 30 cm deep |
| Stem | Glabrescent |
| Leaf | Alternate, solitary or paired; bright to dark green color, petiole 4–7cm; leaf blade oblong-ovate, ovate, or ovatelanceolate, 4–13 × 1.5–4cm, glabrescent, base narrowed, margin entire and wavy, apex short acuminate or acute |
| Flower | Star shaped, small, off-white, pendent. Corolla rotate, five-lobed white, 10 mm. |
| Fruit Shape & Size | Berry, pericarp fleshy and firm, hollow, pendent up to 15cm |
| Fruit Color | Green when young to mostly red orange, yellow, white, brown or purple when mature |
| Flavor/Aroma | Mild, sweet flavor |
| Seed | Pale yellow, discoid or reniform, 3–5 mm across. |
| Major Nutrition | Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid) 119.8 mg (133.11%) Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) 0.334 mg (25.69%) Copper, Cu 0.098 mg (10.89%) Vitamin K (phylloquinone) 11 µg (9.17%) Manganese, Mn 0.182 mg (7.91%) Vitamin B1 (Thiamin) 0.085 mg (7.08%) Total dietary Fiber 2.5 g (6.58%) Iron, Fe 0.51 mg (6.38%) Potassium, K 261 mg (5.55%) Carbohydrate 6.91 g (5.32%) |
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| Calories in 1cup (100gm) | 30 Kcal |