Hollow Vegetable: Peppers

[SagaLore]

This has been bugging me for awhile...

When you slice open a nice crisp green pepper, or red pepper, or yellow pepper... you just broke a seal that has lasted the entire growth of the pepper. My question is - what was in there before you exposed it to air?

Is it mostly oxygen? Nitrogen? Carbon-dioxide?

 

[HardcoreRobot]

im not an expert, i would think the pepper is not hermetically sealed so the gas would be the same composition as the outside air

in a related matter, i cut one in half and there was a big ass moth in there. i have no clue how it got there

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
im not an expert, i would think the pepper is not hermetically sealed so the gas would be the same composition as the outside air

in a related matter, i cut one in half and there was a big ass moth in there. i have no clue how it got there

Was it still alive?

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
im not an expert, i would think the pepper is not hermetically sealed so the gas would be the same composition as the outside air

in a related matter, i cut one in half and there was a big ass moth in there. i have no clue how it got there

Was it still alive?

yup. it must have grown up inside bc there were no external holes. a bunch of the inside had been eaten away too

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
im not an expert, i would think the pepper is not hermetically sealed so the gas would be the same composition as the outside air

in a related matter, i cut one in half and there was a big ass moth in there. i have no clue how it got there

It probably started as an egg and grew with the pepper. Probably enjoyed it too - nice and warm, lots of pepper to eat, etc.

 

[FoBoT]

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