Pepper

Peppers are grown year-round and come in many different types and sizes. Local preferences in taste and colour make for a very diverse range. Rijk Zwaan plays for high stakes in quality with its pepper range.

Our pepper types
Blocky

Nice and blocky peppers in green, red, yellow and orange, each with their individual flavour. Weight: 150 – 300 g.

Charliston

Light green pointed type weighing 80 -  150 g. Popular in Turkey and Greece.

Dolma

Small blocky type with a thin fruit wall; is picked green. 100 – 200 g and often used for stuffing.

Dulce Italiano

Sweet pointed type, eaten green in Spain and as red, sweet, pointed peppers in NW Europe. Weight: 100 – 300 g.

Hungarian Wax

White pointed type weighing 100 – 150 g and popular in the Balkan countries. Broader and whiter than Charliston.

Kapya

Sweet pointed type, but tauter and often slightly shorter than Dulce Italiano.  A typical product for the Balkan countries and Turkey. Also available as a hot version. 100 - 200 g.

Lamuyo

Rectangular fruit with a diameter of 10 – 12 cm and a length of 16 – 20 cm. Comes in green, red and yellow and weighs 250 – 400 g.

Med type

Mediterranean hot pepper with a diameter up to 2.5-3 cm and a length of 10-14 cm.

Sivri

Long, slender pointed pepper with a crinkly fruit wall. Varies from mildly hot to extremely hot but also comes in sweet versions. Colour: from almost white to dark green.

Snack

Conical shaped small pepper for the snack segment. The firm fruits of 100-150 gram have a sweet taste.


Shapes, colours and flavours
Different markets require different types. There is the typically Hungarian pointed pepper, for instance, but also the flavoursome sweet pointed pepper and the tricolore, fruits that weigh around 90 g each. Then there are peppers in various types and sizes, like the Turkish sivri, the Arabic fine pepper and the Chinese large pepper.


Perfect quality
Rijk Zwaan peppers are characterised by their excellent firmness and a glossy, bright colour. In our breeding work for the NW European market we make very sure that our varieties are less susceptible to internal rot, so that customers are not disappointed when they use the product. And it goes without saying that a high yield is a first requirement.


Market opportunities
Rijk Zwaan is always looking for new market opportunities and when it comes to that it does not sidestep any challenges: reliable, productive and labour-friendly varieties. But we also look for new products for new markets, like the sweet, pointed peppers for NW Europe and improved varieties of the peppers that are so popular in China.

 

For information about our varieties visit our subsidiary in your region

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