>>994854>Bell peppers are rather bitter, too.Bell peppers are sweet. However, 9 times out of 10, people pick them green because that's what they see in the grocery store. Green peppers are not ripe and have an assload of bitter tasting solanine glycoalkaloid poison in them which totally wrecks your digestive system in short order.
>>994708If they are fully ripe bell peppers it may be from the ascorbic acid (vitamin C). They have higher vitamin C concentrations than oranges have. Even green bell peppers have a lot more.
