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Is pepper a vegetable or a fruit?
It's vegetables.

Pepper fruit is usually conical or rectangular, green when immature, bright red, green or purple when mature, with red being the most common. The causal skin of pepper contains capsaicin, which is spicy and can stimulate appetite. The content of vitamin C in pepper ranks first among vegetables, which originated in Mexico and was introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty. There are also ornamental peppers, round and inedible, with red and purple colors.

The difference between fruits and vegetables:

1. Vegetable refers to a plant or fungus that can be cooked and cooked into food. Fruit refers to juicy and mostly sweet plant fruit, which can be eaten raw directly.

2. Fruit is not only nutritious, but also helps digestion. Fruit is the general name of fruits and seeds of some edible plants. Fruit has the health functions of lowering blood pressure, delaying aging, losing weight, caring skin, improving eyesight, resisting cancer, lowering cholesterol and supplementing vitamins.

Vegetables are one of the essential foods in people's daily diet. Vegetables can provide a variety of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients needed by the human body. According to FAO 1990 statistics, 90% of VC and 60% of VA necessary for human body come from vegetables. In addition, there are many phytochemicals in vegetables, which are recognized as effective components beneficial to health. At present, the nutrients in fruits and vegetables can effectively prevent chronic and degenerative diseases, which is being discovered.