Red, yellow, orange and green capsicums are the same fruit at different stages of ripeness. Every capsicum starts green because chlorophyll, the pigment used for photosynthesis, dominates. As it ripens, chlorophyll breaks down and carotenoids, yellow and red pigments, become visible. Green capsicums are picked around eight weeks after planting and are firmer and slightly bitter, while red ones stay on the plant about four weeks longer and become sweeter and softer. The shape of the bumps on the bottom does not indicate sex or sweetness, since fruit does not have male and female parts in the way flowers do.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.