Powdered, red chili peppers are known as paprika. Capsaicin is the main bioactive plant compound in chili peppers, responsible for their unique, pungent taste and many of their health benefits.

68 days. Anaheim (Heirloom) Mildly hot chili pepper. Plants produce loads of long green fruit that turn brilliant red when fully ripe. 80 days. Cayenne (Heirloom) Hotter! High yielding hot ...

a chili pepper that emits an “immediate and brutal heat,” according to reporting by the Associated Press. Five of those years were spent proving Pepper X was a different plant with different ...

Like Aleppos (also known as Halaby peppers), many of the world’s most delicious dried red-chile powders and flakes belong to the Capsicum annuum species, a plant with many varietals and what the ...

Laboratory studies have shown that chili pepper extracts inhibit ... Tewksbury scans the plants for fruit-sucking bugs, using his own nicknames. "Red-shouldered beetle mimic," Tewksbury yells ...

Hatch chiles are a cultivar group of the centuries-old chile pepper plant, which was first grown ... If left on the vine, they’ll turn red. The red ones are often bound for salsa, which prompts ...

Hatch is by far the most popular New Mexico chile. The peppers are long and ... they turn red when they ripen. It’s all the same plant. Fidel and Loyda Martinez don’t sell their crop.