Raw bell peppers can overshadow other components in pizza, salads, and sandwiches. Whole peppers can be roasted till tender, charred, and delicious, or thin slices can be pan sautéed. Bell peppers can help balance out heavier toppings like crumbled sausage, caramelized onions, and roasted garlic on pizza. They're also great on their own as a simple salad ingredient. Peppers contain vitamin C, potassium, fiber, and antioxidants. The flavor is robust and slightly spicy; some people prefer hot peppers, while others cannot eat them at all. Regardless of your preference, raw peppers are a tasty addition to most dishes: pizzas, salads, and sandwiches come to mind! You can buy pre-cooked pepper strips in bags at grocery stores. These are easy to add to recipes and they usually have a mild flavor so they work well with many different foods. If you want more flavor, roast or grill fresh peppers before eating them. Putting whole peppers on a pizza will increase its caloric value by about 50 calories per slice. Raw peppers contain about 100 calories per pepper, so you would need three peppers to equal one slice of pizza. Of course, you can reduce the number of peppers if you want to cut down on calories. Cooked pepper strips have 10 calories per strip and roasted peppers have 15 calories per half cup. Raw peppers are available in colors ranging from green to red to orange.