Description
Enjoy a colourful variety with our mixed 3-pack peppers, featuring sweet red, yellow, and green peppers perfect for snacking, adding to salads, stir-fries, grilling, or brightening up any dish with their vibrant flavours. Available in our Local Farm Shop in Bellaghy, Mid Ulster Area.
🌶️ Peppers are a vibrant and diverse group of fruits from the Capsicum genus, known for their wide range of flavors, colors, and heat levels. Here’s a flavorful breakdown:
🧁 Sweet & Mild Peppers
- Bell Peppers: Crisp and juicy with zero heat. Come in green, red, yellow, orange, and even purple. Perfect for salads, stir-fries, and stuffing.
- Banana Peppers: Tangy and slightly sweet, often pickled or used on sandwiches.
- Pimento (Cherry) Peppers: Heart-shaped, red, and sweet—famously used in pimento cheese and stuffed olives.
🔥 Medium Heat Peppers
- Jalapeños: Popular in Mexican cuisine, with a fresh bite and moderate heat (2,500–8,000 Scoville units).
- Serrano Peppers: Smaller and hotter than jalapeños, great in salsas and sauces.
- Poblano Peppers: Mild when fresh, but dried (as ancho) they become rich and smoky—ideal for mole sauces.
🌋 Hot & Super-Hot Peppers
- Cayenne: Thin and fiery, often dried and ground into spice.
- Habanero: Fruity and blisteringly hot, used in Caribbean dishes.
- Ghost Pepper & Carolina Reaper: Among the hottest in the world, used sparingly in extreme heat challenges.
🌈 Fun Facts
- Peppers originated in Central and South America and were spread globally after Columbus’s voyages.
- Their heat comes from capsaicin, concentrated in the white ribs and seeds.
- The Scoville scale measures their spiciness—from 0 (bell pepper) to over 2 million (Carolina Reaper).
