Re: Capsicum, greenbell pepper and chilli pepper

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Bell peppers and chili peppers are from the same family, Capsicum. Both are

variants of Capsicum annuum. Could be the Capsaicin that he's reacting to.

Chili peppers contain it but not bell/sweet peppers.

Karla

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> Hi

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> I have checked this on wikipedia but still couldn't get the answer I need.

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> Since the food panel IgG test I did is based on the common US food panel, I'd

really appreciate if you can help to answer a trivia question here.

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> The report of our IgG shows that my son is highly reactive to 'chilli pepper'

but not to 'greenbell pepper'.

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> The CLO I give to my son contains capsicum to help absorption...All I need to

know is which one of the above refers to capsicum?

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> Thanks

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> Regards

> Shan

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