All bell peppers begin green and turn yellow, orange and red as they ripen and gain in sweetness. once ripened, different coloured peppers have different tastes and identifying features. Yellow peppers are known as the juiciest while orange peppers have been allowed to ripen longer, giving them a milder taste. Res peppers are typically recognized for their sweetness.

Tomatoes and peppers are botanical fruits, but widely viewed and treated as a vegetables in the culinary world. More likely to be found on a veggie tray than in a fruit salad, sweet bell peppers, like cucumbers and tomatoes, can accurately be called a fruit or a vegetable, depending on the context. Peppers that are picked earlier to ripen afterwards are not as sweet as their vine-ripened counterparts.