Summer has always been the season of vegetables with bright colors and flavours: if the desire for grilled meat takes over, what about a good red pepper to accompany that riot of aromas and irresistible flavours? This vegetable, imported into Europe from America, is characterized by the content of vitamins of different groups, A, B and C, as well as an important mineral such as magnesium. Red peppers, in particular, are particularly low in calories, low in carbohydrates and fibre: what other vegetable could best enrich the summer diet?