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If you want vitamin C without the sugar load of drinking orange juice, you may be interested to learn that bell peppers have a much higher content of vitamin C
by david-gpu 2y ago
If you want vitamin C without the sugar load of drinking orange juice, you may be interested to learn that bell peppers have a much higher content of vitamin C than oranges, either per gram or per calorie.
Edit: Let me offer some USDA data points for those who are curious, but not curious enough to bother Googling for themselves.
Red Bell Peppers: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/170108/nutrients https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/170108/n...
Green Bell Peppers: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/2258588/nutrients https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/2258588/...
Oranges: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/746771/nutrients https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/746771/n...
- selimthegrim 2y agoEven green ones?
- adrian_b 2y agoTrue. Eating one raw red bell pepper per day is pretty much guaranteed to provide enough vitamin C, even when no other food contains any. If the red bell peppers are cooked, some of the vitamin C will be lost, but there still should be more than is most kinds of food.