How many calories in a bell pepper
One whole pepper has about 30 kcal, raw or cooked.
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To burn it off
A pepper is mostly water with a bit of natural sugar, which is why the red ones taste sweet. One is about 30 kcal, with 7 g of carbs and no fat.
Red, yellow and green are the same plant picked at different times, so the count is close for all three.
Raw strips with a dip make a crunchy snack, but the dip is where most of the calories live. A few big scoops of houmous will easily beat the pepper.
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Where it comes from
Peppers were domesticated in Mexico about 6,000 years ago, in a region stretching from southern Puebla and northern Oaxaca to Veracruz. Columbus met them in the Caribbean and called them pepper, mistaking them for a kind of the black pepper he had sailed to find. Sweet, mild types like the bell pepper belong to the same species as many chillies.
Where does our food come from? · Source: Smithsonian Affiliations, A plant from the Americas that conquered the world
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Questions
Do red peppers have more calories than green?
A touch more sugar, but it's tiny. Count about 30 kcal for any whole pepper.
How many calories in half a pepper?
About 15 kcal.
Do roasted peppers have more calories?
The pepper doesn't change much. The oil you roast it in is the part to count.
Can you eat the seeds and white bits in a pepper?
Yes, they're safe to eat, just a little bitter. Most people cut them out for the texture, not because they have to.
How much vitamin C is in a pepper?
A whole red pepper has about 190 mg, more than twice what's in an orange. A green one has a bit less, about 120 mg.
