the.com/green pepper
the unripe teenager of the pepper world, too impatient to turn sweet and red
means An unripe bell pepper, harvested while still green and slightly bitter, before it ripens into a sweeter red, yellow, or orange.
from "Green" is one of English's oldest color words, from Old English grene, rooted in the same Germanic source as "grow" and "grass" — literally the color of growing things. "Pepper" comes from Old English pipor, borrowed from Latin piper, itself from Greek peperi, all tracing back to Sanskrit pippali, the word for the long pepper of India. When Spanish explorers met the unrelated chili and bell plants of the Americas, they borrowed the familiar name "pepper" for these new pungent fruits — so the "green pepper" carries a name that once sailed the spice routes from India, now pinned onto a New World vegetable that never met a peppercorn.
- same plant
- Green and red bells come from identical plants
- less sweet
- Picked early, before sugars fully develop
- cheaper
- Costs less since it spends fewer days ripening
- vitamin c
- Reds pack far more once they mature
- the burp
- Notorious for repeating on sensitive stomachs
poblano pepper — mexican chili pepper, 2-3 inches long, mild heat (1,000-2,000 scoville units)
bell pepper green — sweet pepper variety, 0 scoville units, most common in grocery stores
anaheim pepper — california-grown green chile, mild (500-2,500 scoville units), used in rellenos