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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/food-of-the-week-part-i-beautiful-bell-peppers/">Food of the Week [Part I]: Beautiful Bell Peppers</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted April 20, 2008 at 05:00 PM by Katie Drummond</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">They’re a favorite of brown bag lunches everywhere, as a raw veggie that can be tossed into tupperware and makes the perfect receptacle for hummus, dressings and dips. That’s right - the bell pepper is our Food of the Week, for more than merely its convenience factor. As a matter of fact, a little research shows that this bright and bountiful vegetable (which comes in red, green, yellow, orange and even black varieties all year round) packs a nutritional punch that few other veggies can boast. If you’ve got the spring sniffles, consider it extra incentive to dice some pepper on your salad for dinner tonight - a serving (around 3-4 strips) of bell pepper has over 100% of your daily recommended intake of vitamin C and is an excellent source of vitamin A (which contains beta-carotene, a major fighter…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/food-of-the-week-part-i-beautiful-bell-peppers/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/food-of-the-week-part-i-beautiful-bell-peppers/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/food-of-the-week-part-i-beautiful-bell-peppers/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/food-of-the-week-part-i-beautiful-bell-peppers/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/healthy-eating/">healthy-eating</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/recipes/">recipes</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/vegetarianism/">vegetarianism</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/weight-control/">weight-control</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/special-features/">special-features</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/food-of-the-week/">food-of-the-week</a><br /><br /> </P>