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.
OK so I've just found out that green peppers turn yellow then orange then red and they're actually all the same pepper just less ripe and my mind is blown
— Amy (@callmeamye) September 11, 2018
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.
Wait… what…. how…. but the price difference? pic.twitter.com/RnmMIawoKe
— I wonder (@wonnderwhatt) September 14, 2018
Ok so I just read on here some sorcery about green red and yellow peppers all being the same just different stages of ripeness…. pic.twitter.com/f7gAAzKa1k
— Brianna ♫ (@briannatrayl0r) September 14, 2018
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.
How did so many people not know this?
— Gillian Perry (@mitten2009) September 12, 2018
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.”
So this claim about peppers has gone viral. ⬇️
However as a botanist I can tell you it is also not true.
Neither is the (freakin’ weird) idea that some peppers are ‘male’ and others ‘female’.
Sorry to be ‘that guy’, but this is how it works…https://t.co/hlPDRPiAqP
— James Wong (@Botanygeek) September 14, 2018
Although it *is* true that green peppers are just unripe regular ones, yellow, orange and red peppers are all genetically different varieties at full maturity.
Their DNA predetermines the maximum amount of pigments they can produce, which creates this variation in colour. pic.twitter.com/g6zGi2YRgP
— James Wong (@Botanygeek) September 14, 2018
Honestly, we don’t know what to think anymore.
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