The female peppers are full of seeds ... All bell peppers start out green. A yellow, orange, red or purple pepper that is ripe will generally be sweeter than a green one, said Turner.

David Karp, a pomologist at UC Riverside, also addressed the rumor of bell pepper gender in 2013: "The supposition that there are male and female peppers is a common canard, but untrue.

Green bell peppers, while fully edible ... you can tell if it's a male or a female. The ones with three bumps are male, and the ones with four are female, which are sweeter and better to eat ...

In fact, there aren't male and female bell peppers ... Reuters notes that red peppers tend to be sweeter than green peppers, as they're fully mature. The number of lobes has more to do with ...

Sun-Times file Share When world-famous female impersonator Chilli Pepper would take the stage at The Baton Show Lounge in the 1980s and ‘90s, it wasn’t uncommon to see a celebrity such as ...