Paprika and its superior twin smoked paprika, can be found in anything from paella to paprika tea, so you’d think most people know what it is. However, if recent Internet revelations are any indication, you’d be mistaken.
In a recent post, the Australian food firm Nutraorganics clarified to their readers that paprika is not a unique plant, but rather dried peppers. People’s minds were blown, just as they were when this was posted on Twitter in January, though it’s unclear what they thought paprika was previously.
Paprika is manufactured from smashed-up sweet and mild peppers, as stated in the posts. Early Spanish explorers of the Americas introduced spicy peppers to Europe. Europeans cultivated milder and milder varieties of the plant over time, resulting in a considerably sweeter flavor.
Paprika peppers are longer and thinner than bell peppers offered in the United States, despite similarities in sweetness and lack of spice and belonging to the same family. Hotter kinds of paprika include chili peppers as well as sweeter varieties of peppers, although the sweet form is primarily used in Hungary, where it has become the national spice.
In fact, it lacks its own tree because that tree is already being utilized for perfectly regular peppers.
