Can Dogs Eat Bell Peppers?

Yes: red, yellow and orange bell peppers are among the safe vegetables for dogs. Red bell peppers have the highest vitamin C content and the most antioxidants. Green peppers are unripe, harder to digest and best avoided.

What Bell Peppers Do for Dogs

Red bell peppers contain more vitamin C than green peppers and provide beta-carotene. What matters in practice: ripe peppers can be fed in small amounts as a low-calorie vegetable side dish.

What to Watch Out For

Never feed hot pepper varieties: chili, jalapeno and other hot peppers contain capsaicin, which severely irritates the gastrointestinal tract of dogs and can cause vomiting.

Green bell peppers are unripe and harder to digest than ripe varieties: stick with red, yellow or orange peppers.

Always remove seeds and stems. Raw or cooked: both options work.

How to Feed Bell Peppers

Wash the pepper, remove seeds and stem, cut into small pieces. Serve raw as a snack or as a supplement to food. A few tablespoons as a side dish depending on body size.

Nutritional Values and Amount

100 g of red bell pepper contains approximately 31 kcal, 1 g protein, 6.4 g carbohydrates and 190 mg vitamin C. Yellow bell pepper provides approximately 27 kcal and 184 mg vitamin C, while green only has 80 mg vitamin C per 100 g.

Guideline by body weight:

• Small dog (up to 10 kg): 2 to 3 small pieces as a snack
• Medium dog (10 to 25 kg): a quarter pepper in pieces
• Large dog (over 25 kg): half a pepper in pieces

The skin can be hard to digest raw and may strain digestion. For sensitive dogs, lightly steam the pepper or roast it in the oven and peel the skin. This preserves the vitamins while significantly improving digestibility.

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