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Default Are Red and Yellow Bell Peppers More Nutritious than Green Ones?



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> Ripe bell peppers contain more sugar too, but they don't necessarily
> contain more vitamins/minerals than green bell peppers, they can actually
> contain less vitamins especially if sitting on produce shelves longer
> which tends to be true of more costly items, and mineral content is mostly
> a result of the soil on which it was grown. However red fruit generally
> contains more anitioxident value than green fruit. I typically use green
> bells for cooking and save the reds to eat raw in salads.. I think, due to
> the higher price, it adds insult to injury to cook red peppers because
> heat destroys much of the vitamins, and minerals are leached out into
> cooking liquid which is true for preparing any vegetable... when folks
> steam/boil veggies unless they consume the liquid they are eating the
> chaff and discarding the nutrition.


True. However there is also microwaving, which cooks vegetables without
leaching all the nutrients out (maybe a small bit due to evaporation).

Jon