OKANAGAN HOTHOUSE™ COLOURED SWEET BELL PEPPERS Availability: Okanagan Hothouse™ Coloured Sweet Bell Peppers are available from March through November Selection: Choose brightly, evenly coloured peppers that are firm, plump, and smooth with thick, glossy skins Care & Storage: Store Bell Peppers unwashed in a plastic bag in the vegetable crisper up to 5 days. Bell Pepper Trivia: Bell Peppers are native to South and Central America. Christopher Columbus was the first European to encounter sweet bell peppers and since then, their reputation has spread from Europe to North America and the Far East One Sweet Bell Pepper provides 126% of the vitamin C and 90% of the vitamin A for the adult daily requirement. Sweet Bell Peppers are low in sodium and fat free Each coloured pepper is grown from a separate variety of seed. The immature peppers are green and matures to their own brilliant colour - red, orange, yellow, lilac, purple, cream, and brown NUTRITION INFORMATION BC Sweet Peppers per 100 g serving (one medium) Energy 15 cal Protein 0.9 g Fat 0.1 g Carbohydrates 3.2 g Dietary Fibre 1.6 Sodium 1 mg Potassium 180 mg

Nutritional Information provided by: Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Nutrition Encyclopedia Fresh for Flavour Foundation, 1991.