What type of sweet bell pepper has the highest amount of vitamin C?
Sweet bell peppers contain plenty of vitamin C, which powers up your immune system and keeps skin youthful. Red peppers are more mature than green, orange or yellow bell peppers. They are rich in carotenoid phytonutrients and contain almost eleven times more beta-carotene than green bell peppers as well as one and a half times more vitamin C.
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58 Comments
Steve Kemp
This is getting ridiculous. Could the setters PLEASE check their answers before posting. From Bell Pepper Nutrition - For example, yellow is in between ripeness of the green and red variety but contains the most vitamin C per 100 grams. The same quantity of yellow peppers contains 306% of the daily recommendation of vitamin C, whereas the red pepper comes in second with 213%
michael watson
As usual, another wrong answer
Bob Pacific
Wrong answer- you should do your research
John Cameron
According to sources, the Red Pepper loses vitamin C as it changes from Yellow. How can it have MORE C if it than Yellow?
finsfone
Way to go everybody, PEPPER the author with complaints! Lol
Pat Anne Hughes Everett
I put red but accept everyone's saying it is yellow - thank you.
John McLardie
No reference????
jshehan
Naked Kitty Slave, completely agree. I see you have gotten the same comments I have.
Naked Kitty Slave
Steve Kemp, used to review a lot of questions. It socks now. The reviewer is told they are being 'too strict' if spelling and wrong answers are pointed out. 99% of wrong answers are compliments of Wikicrap as a reference. It is lost on the powers that be that Wikicrap is a bunch of data written by everyday humans that are not the geniuses they believe themselves to be. Anyone can contribute to Wiki. Nothing is going to change here unless we all contact QC with our 'oh another wrong answer' frustrations.
Albeck1994
BS it's yellow by far
Linda Scribner
WRONG! Yellow has the highest amount of vitamin C!
dick aspel
Absolute balderdash. It's yellow. Infuriating when rubbish like this is allowed to pass.
Special Patrol Group
Yellow peppers contain more vitamin C than red ones.
Mark Jones
Bell Pepper Nutrition:
Each bell pepper type contains nearly similar nutrition qualities; however, they do differ in their quantities of vitamin C. For example, yellow is in between ripeness of the green and red variety, but contains the most vitamin C per 100 grams. The same quantity of yellow peppers contains 306% of the daily recommendation of vitamin C, whereas the red pepper comes in second with 213%. Lastly, the green pepper contains 134% of the daily vitamin C recommendation.
George Oliver Prince
Nice to know, since I'm a big fan of bell peppers