
Do the bumps on a bell pepper reveal how sweet it will be? Er, no
“Pepper fruit are the fertilised ovaries of flowers” Gary Lenhart/Shutterstock When I was a kid, my Malaysian grandma used to drag me around the local market, where she spent what felt like hours scrutinising each item of fruit and vegetable before buying it, as only Asian grandmothers can. She would lift every papaya to examine…