paprika or bell pepper

In my country bell pepper is called paprika, so this confuses me. Is bell pepper American English and paprika British English?

What is the difference between paprika and bell pepper?

The bell pepper (also known as sweet pepper, paprika, pepper, capsicum /ˈkæpsɪkəm/ or, in some parts of the U.S. Midwest, mango) is the fruit of plants in the ...

28 dec. 2025 — Paprika is not a bell pepper. It's a spice made by drying and grinding specific red bell peppers (Capsicum annuum). Bell peppers are fresh ...

2 nov. 2022 — Paprika contains 89 times less vitamin C than bell peppers. Bell peppers contain 80.4mg of vitamin C, while paprika contains 0.9mg.

15 apr. 2017 — What is the difference between pepper and paprika and bell pepper ?

Paprika is indeed made from dried, crushed, and ripened fruit pods of specific varieties of the Capsicum annum species, which includes sweet ...

Paprika is a spice made from dried and ground red peppers, Capsicum annuum. It can have varying levels of heat, but the peppers used for hot paprika tend to be ...

14 mars 2015 — Paprika is simply pepper in a different language. You get different forms of paprika - hot, mild, sweet, smoky etc. You also get paprika peppers ...