are orange peppers just unripened red peppers or are they supposed to be orange?

Question

also are peppers acidic in the same way as tomatoes are?

Answer 1

Orange peppers are meant to be orange just as the yellow ones are meant to be yellow, but the red ones were formerly green. They do have a certain amount of acid although nothing like a tomato.

Answer 2

Orange peppers start out green, you put them in a bag in a cupboard for a couple of days and they change colors. First green, then red, then yellow, then orange. Try it. Its a lot cheaper than what most stores want to charge you. You just have to be sure and check it(the pepper) and peppers are not as acidic as tomatoes.

Answer 3

Coincidentally I bought some green peppers and left them on the kitchen windowsill for a few days - they slowly turned red but didn't go through the yellow/orange phase. So obviously red and green peppers are the same, but different stages of ripeness - orange and yellow peppers must be a slightly different variety.

Answer 4

In gardening I've found plants that produce only yellow peppers but plants that produce green (California Wonders) peppers will produce red peppers if left on the plant long enough. I haven't found peppers to be acidic--they seem to get sweeter as they mature on the plant

Answer 5

they are bred to be orange and they have some that are purple too. I am not sure about the acidic part but i dont think so. A health food coop could probably answer this.

Answer 6

They are supposed to be orange.

Answer 7

they are suppose to be orange.There are red,orange,yellow,green.I use all of them alot.

Answer 8

dunno