The question of whether different color bell peppers are form the same plant or they are different breeds entirely has been around for a long time.
Bell pepper colors teste
There is a widespread belief that different colored bell peppers come from the same plant, despite the fact that green, red, orange, and yellow bell peppers may all be found in grocery stores.
It is said that peppers start off green, progress through the colors yellow and orange as they grow, and finally become red at the end of their life cycle.
The issue is that that is not the case at all.
After lifestyle blogger Call Me Amy posted the rumor on Twitter, it skyrocketed to the top of the trending topics list almost immediately.
It has been liked more than 260,000 times and retweeted more than 51,000 times.
It stunned thousands of commenters, and news organizations ranging from the BBC to HuffPost mindlessly published it without questioning its veracity.
It is a common misconception that all of the different kinds of peppers that are sold in grocery shops originate from the same plant.
In almost any seed catalog, you should be able to find a good number of seeds for a wide variety of peppers.
There are a few different ones to choose from for the hues green, red, yellow, and orange.
In fact, unripe red peppers, some of which begin their lives green before becoming red, are often confused for green peppers when they are purchased at supermarkets.
Kevin Lawrence, a farmer at Lawrence Farms Orchards in Newburgh, New York, claims that red peppers have a higher price tag due to the fact that their cultivation requires greater attention to detail and longer amounts of time.
Bell pepper colors yellow
According to Lawrence, they need to spend more time hanging about on the vine.
They are more likely to get an infection or become ill if they remain seated on the plant for an extended amount of time.
On the other hand, there are certain green peppers that have never turned red and have reached their full maturity.
He said that he had some green peppers and explained that they do not turn red but instead stay green.
Depending on the plant, yellow, orange, and even the more unusual purple peppers may occasionally begin their lives as green peppers, or they can maintain that color throughout their development.
When asked about his crop of peppers, Lawrence said, "It's a yellow pepper.
And it starts out yellow.
