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All over Java, you come across fields of pepper plants, on which the pods hang, first green, then yellow and finally red, and which are an indispensable part of the islanders' diet. The undemanding plant thrives particularly well in the fertile volcanic soil. Incidentally, pepper plants are the only spice plants that contain high levels of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and carotenoids (provitamin A). – 1990

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