This tweet about capsicums will blow your mind

An eye-opening tweet about capsicums has gone viral and completely turned our world upside down – or at least, the part of our world that cares about capsicums.

We all know that capsicums come in a few different colours like red, green and yellow, but it turns out they’re more similar than you may think.

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If you weren’t aware, all capsicums actually start off as green ones and it’s their level of ripeness that changes their colour.

Most capsicums turn red on ripening, but there are also yellow and orange versions. As the fruit ripens, it loses some of the sharpness that green capsicums are known for, and becomes sweeter and more nutritious, according to Harris Farm.

Shocking, we know.

And it seems there were a whole lot of people surprised by this nifty little fact. One Twitter user by the name of Amy sparked a viral thread about the colour of capsicums after she made the discovery herself.

“I’ve just found out that green peppers [capsicums] turn yellow, then orange, then red,” she wrote.

Her tweet has since been shared over 53,000 times with over 265,000 likes.

The revelation led to a host of various reactions around the Twitter-verse.

Some people however, were already living their lives fully aware of this fact and were surprised there were so many people who didn’t know it.

But just to throw even more confusion into the works, a botanist took it upon himself to shed some light on the genetic makeup of the red, yellow and orange coloured capsicums.

“As a botanist I can tell you it is also not true,” James Wong tweeted.

“Sorry to be that guy, but this is how it works.”

Honestly, we don’t know what to think anymore.

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