Summary

With a full range of flavors from sweet and fruity to hot and spicy and an array of beautiful colors, it’s no wonder that peppers are one of the most popular garden vegetables. They are also a great source of vitamin C and other compounds that can be beneficial, such as carotenoids. However, the most well-known compounds in peppers are the capsaicinoids that provide the characteristic spicy, pungent or even painful heat. Sweet peppers have genetic differences in the control of these compounds, so they lack the pungency of hot peppers.