undigestable

"My first thought was that that's odd - things like that are usually caused by undigestable starches, and peppers don't have starches.

Small amounts of beeswax have food and flavoring applications, and are edible in the sense of having similar toxicity to undigestable plant waxes.

Although undigestable for many animals (as explained above), phytic acid and its metabolites as they occur in seeds and grains have several important roles for the seedling plant.

"It's poorly organized, it's undigestable, and it takes a huge bite out of the news hole," said one editor, who insisted on anonymity but who echoed the sentiment of others.

There is no scientific evidence that suggests the avoidance of nuts and seeds prevents the progression of diverticulosis to an acute case of diverticulitis, and as such the widely held belief that small undigestable foods like seeds becoming lodged in the diverticula appears to be nothing more than an 'old wives' tale.