name: Italian Sweet Red Pepper
flavor_db_name_variants: italian sweet red pepper
source: foodb
status: draft
food_db_id: Italian sweet red pepper
id: 881
name_scientific: Capsicum annuum
description: The Italian sweet pepper is a variety of the species <i>Capsicum annuum</i>, like bell peppers and chilli peppers. It has the appearance of a large chilli pepper but the mild taste of sweet peppers such as the bell pepper. <i>Capsicum annuum</i> is a domesticated species of the plant genus <i>Capsicum</i> native to southern North America and northern South America. The three species <i>C. annuum</i>, <i>C. frutescens</i> and <i>C. chinense</i> all evolved from a single common ancestor located somewhere in the northwest Brazil - Colombia area. <i>Capsicum annuum</i> is the most common and extensively cultivated of the five domesticated capsicums. The species is a source of popular "sweet peppers":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_peppers and "hot chilis":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_pepper with numerous varieties cultivated all around the world. In American English the plant is commonly known as a chili pepper or bell pepper. In British English, the sweet varieties are called red or green peppers and the hot varieties chillies, whereas in Australian and Indian English the name capsicum is commonly used for bell peppers exclusively and chilli is often used to encompass the hotter varieties. [Wikipedia] See a "list of capsicum cultivars":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Capsicum_cultivars.
itis_id: 30492
wikipedia_id: Italian sweet pepper
picture_file_name: 939px-Italian_sweet_peppers.jpg
picture_content_type: image/jpeg
picture_file_size: 124244
picture_updated_at: 2015-02-26T18:54:22.000Z
legacy_id: null
food_group: Vegetables
food_subgroup: Fruit vegetables
food_type: Type 1
created_at: 2015-02-26T18:54:23.000Z
updated_at: 2019-05-17T16:19:47.000Z
creator_id: null
updater_id: null
export_to_afcdb: true
category: specific
ncbi_taxonomy_id: 4072
export_to_foodb: true
public_id: FOOD00881