"Ellen K." > wrote in message
...
> Lately a lot of the green and red peppers I've bought have brown something
> on areas of their inner surface. It looks ughy so I've been cutting those
> parts out and trashing them, but I'd like to know what this is. Maybe
> some kind of fungus?
>

Here's what I think is the right answer, from SDT on rec.food.preserving
(Thanks for the pointer, Nick!) :

I thing I haven't experienced for a few years is an anti fungal wax.
The grower treats the peppers with the wax and the outside of the pepper
does not rot, dry or go bad in any way.
BUT: --- The inside does.

When those 'persons' were using that wax here the peppers felt sticky at the
store, and when the store managers finally understood what was going on they
were very angry and possibly? Very Very angry.