Bell Pepper 🫑

The bell pepper emoji shows a plump, rounded vegetable with a glossy finish, typically depicted in bright green, red, or yellow depending on the platform. It has a distinctive blocky shape with a small stem and sometimes visible ridges along its sides, making it instantly recognizable as a bell pepper or capsicum.

While it's genuinely used to talk about cooking, salads, and meal prep, the bell pepper also carries a playful secondary life online. It occasionally appears in double-meaning contexts or as a harmless emoji for adding food authenticity to culinary content. Most commonly, though, it's straightforward—someone sharing a stir-fry recipe or grocery haul will drop it without irony.

Unlike its spicy cousin, the bell pepper maintains a more innocent, purely culinary reputation. It's the emoji you use when you're genuinely talking about vegetables rather than using food as coded language.

This relatively newer addition to the emoji family approved in 2020 as part of Unicode Emoji 13 reflects the modern expansion of food-focused emojis. Design differences between platforms are minimal, keeping the bell pepper's cheerful, vegetable-forward identity consistent across Apple, Google, and other systems.