Ukraine

Ukraine’s pepper sector focuses on Capsicum annuum: sweet bells and frying peppers plus hot varieties such as long Turkish-style spicy peppers, jalapeño, and various hybrids. New varieties like Sinatra F1 (sweet) and specialty peppers such as Leysa (a very sweet but also potentially hot local type) have been registered, while home growers increasingly cultivate superhots like Naga Viper, Bhut Jolokia, and Trinidad Scorpion for hot sauces.

Hot peppers are used in adjika (a chili-garlic paste shared with Georgia and the Caucasus), in pickles, and in stuffed-pepper dishes alongside sweet varieties. Most chilies are for domestic use; Ukraine imports dried chilies and sauces, and exports jarred adjika and pickled peppers.

Flavours range from mild, sweet paprika notes to robust, floral heat from long spicy and imported superhot chilies.