Are bell peppers considered a fruit or a vegetable?

BRY2K

Bell peppers are in fact fruits. The term "bell pepper" is one of the many names for some fruits of the Capsicum annuum species of plants. Today, the term "bell pepper" or "pepper" or "capsicum" is often used for any of the large bell shaped capsicum fruits, regardless of their color. Bell Peppers are indeed fruits, even though most treat them as vegetables. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_pepper Jun 10 08, 8:23 AM

mscorpion

Bell peppers are fruit. http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/dec98/912646824.Ag.r.html [Link added -- Zb] Jun 10 08, 8:25 AM

jbooker8

Fruit http://agalternatives.aers.psu.edu/crops/bell_peppers/Bell_Peppers.pdf Jun 10 08, 3:54 PM

jk18	Bell peppers are fruits. Any vegetable with seeds is considered a fruit. Example, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, hot peppers, eggplant, tomatillos, christophene, and okra. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable Jul 19 08, 3:35 PM

Baloo55th

To answer accurately, one needs to know the context. Otherwise, the use of different jargons in English can lead to dogmatic answers that are only correct in one context. In scientific (botanical) jargon, peppers are fruits. In culinary jargon, they are vegetables. Same with tomatoes, eggplants and okra. Neither use is incorrect in the proper context. (Another example of the difference between scientific jargon and more common English is steam. To the scientist, it's a colourless hot gas. To the layman, it's a whitish vapour that may be hot or not. This is the original meaning - but in context both are correct.) Jul 19 08, 3:57 PM