Paprika: red, green or yellow - here are the most vitamins

Bell peppers are known to contain plenty of vitamins. You can find out which color brings most of it in this practical tip.

Vitamins in peppers: red is ahead

Paprika is a real vitamin C bomb in all colors.

The red pepper has the most vitamin C. 100 grams contain 140 mg of vitamin C.
Yellow peppers ranked second with 120 to 130 mg vitamin C per 100 grams.
The bottom pepper is the green pepper. But here, too, there are still 115 mg of vitamin C in 100 g of healthy vegetables.
By the way, paprika not only brings vitamin C, but also plenty of beta carotene, a precursor of vitamin A.
The red pepper with 2.125 micrograms beta-carotene per 100 grams is also the leader here.
In comparison: Green peppers with 530 micrograms beta-carotene contain significantly less of the healthy vitamin.

There are different types of peppers.

Regardless of the variety, the following applies: Immature pods are always green. They were harvested early and still contain a lot of chlorophyll - the reason for the green color.
Store the peppers properly, change color to yellow and then either orange or red depending on the variety.
During the ripening process, not only the vitamin content increases, but also the sugar content.
For this reason, red peppers taste sweeter than green ones. Ripe peppers therefore bring a little more calories.
While 100 grams of green peppers put just 20 calories on the plate, there are 37 calories for red peppers, which is still very little.