Food: Chile Pepper [edit]

Other Names:Chilli Pepper, Chilli, Chili, Chile, Chillie, 智利胡椒 (Chinese), شيلي بيبر (Arabic), Pimenta do Chile (Portuguese), Chili... All Translations

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Chili pepper (also known as, or spelled, chilli pepper, chilli, chillie, chili, and chile) is the fruit of the plants from the genus ''Capsicum'', members of the nightshade family, ''Solanaceae''. Although botanically speaking, the fruit of capsicums are berries, the peppers are considered as vegetables or spices for culinary purposes. Depending on flavor intensity and fleshiness, their culinary use varies from use as a vegetable (e.g., bell pepper) to use as a spice (e.g., cayenne pepper). Chili peppers originated in the Americas. Their cultivars are now grown around the world, because they are widely used as food and as medicine.

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[edit] About Chile Pepper

Peppers ranging from mild to very spicy; milder chiles are used in cooking as a vegetable, while the hotter varieties are used as spices. Chile's can be used in fresh or dried form; dried chiles are often ground into a powder. Though these peppers are native to Central and South America and thus popular in the cuisines of those regions, they have also become common in the cooking many Asian and African cultures.

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