I recommend red bell peppers to all my clients and not green. I am often asked why, well, here is my reason. Nutrition Density! I always tell you that I want you to eat foods that are nutrition dense because your body loves these foods and using it as fuel without “storing”. Your body needs nutrition (fuel) to give it all that it needs in order to do what you want it to do for you. Better nutrition means better performance.
Bell peppers are members of the Nightshade family of vegetables along with potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants. The various colored Bell Peppers all come from the same plant, but differ in their level of maturity. I recommend Red Bell Pepper because they are fully mature, ripe, and ready with more nutrients for your whole food health plan. Green peppers are harder to digest and assimilate and often create stomach cramps in some people. Here is the breakdown of information.
GREEN PEPPERS
Green bell peppers are harvested before they are fully ripe, one reason they are less expensive than other varieties. Green bell peppers will continue to first turn yellow and then red if they are left on the plant to mature. They have a slightly bitter flavor and will never have the sweet taste of their red, yellow and orange counterparts. Since they are picked early, before they are fully ripe, they do not contain as much nutrition as the more mature yellow and red peppers that are allowed to stay on the vine until full vine ripeness. Buy organic – more value and more nutrition without the chemicals that make us sick!
ORANGE AND YELLOW PEPPERS
More mature than green bell peppers, yellow and orange peppers have a fruity taste but are not as commonly found in local markets as green and red bell peppers.
RED PEPPERS
These 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. Red Bell Peppers have a sweet, almost fruity taste. Pimento and paprika are both prepared from red bell peppers. There are also other varieties that have a more tapered shape and are affectionately called “Lunch Box Peppers” and do not have the lobes characteristic of the green, orange yellow and red varieties.
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