General Information
Sweet banana peppers are popular garden-variety peppers. The banana pepper is a very productive plant producing banana-shaped fruits that change from pale to deep yellow or orange as they mature. These benign members of the Capsicum family have a crisp, juicy texture and a mild flavor that bears little resemblance to that of their mouth-searing cousins, the chiles. Peppers are native to the tropics and were introduced in Europe by Christopher Columbus. Peppers quickly took on starring roles in a variety of Spanish dishes and are now used in cultures throughout the world.
Sweet and mild in flavor, this variety of pepper resembles the Hungarian Wax pepper which is often considered to be the same chile pepper except slightly larger and hotter in flavor.
