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What Color Pepper Is the Healthiest?

Published Sep,01 2011 | By Jayne Blanchard

Pick a peck of colorful peppers to punch up the flavor and nutritional content of your meals. Bell peppers come in a palette of colors -- green, red, yellow, orange, purple and chocolate brown -- and all varieties are excellent sources of the antioxidant vitamins A and C.

Jayne Blanchard's work as a journalist and editor has appeared in "The Washington Post," "Psychology Today," "Brides," "Newsday," "USA Today," "Cosmopolitan," "ADAM," "Style" magazine and myriad other publications. In addition to writing about health, travel and women's issues, she has also worked as a movie reviewer and theater critic and holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.