Are peppers (capsicums) vegetables or fruit?

Bell pepper, also known as sweet pepper, is one of the most commonly employed chili peppers in the Capsicum annuum family. Sweet peppers are fruit pods on the capsicum plant grown for their subtle hotness yet sweet, delicate peppery flavor they extend to the recipes. read more

Sweet peppers are fruit pods on the capsicum plant grown for their subtle hotness yet sweet, delicate peppery flavor they extend to the recipes. Botanically, it is a small perennial shrub in the nightshade or Solanaceae family, in the genus, capsicum. Scientific name: Capsicum annuum L. Unlike their fellow capsicum members, sweet peppers have characteristic bell shape with crunchy, thick fleshy texture. read more

In this case, capsicums/bell peppers are definitely a fruit: the plant flowers, its ovary swells and develops into the pepper body, which when you cut it open has seeds in it. In this way, bell peppers are like eggplants, tomatoes, apples, plantains, and pomegranates: they have seeds inside. read more

The capsicum plant produces edible peppers, which are fruit to a botanist and vegetables to a cook. All pepper plants are capsicums. Different species grow pods ranging from large and sweet to small and hot. read more