What is the difference between reg. paprika and hungarian paprika?

Question

What is the difference between reg. paprika and hungarian paprika?

Answer 1

Hungarian is sweeter a a brighter red color, there is also a smoked paprika and a somewhat spicy/hot spanish style.  

Answer 2

what's the difference ? i think that the hungarian paprika it's more tasty than reg. paprika .And hungarian paprika has an  smell so good .  

Answer 3

the flavor.

Answer 4

The quality of Paprika is determined by its rendering color, mild pungency, flavor and aroma. The best color is crimson red.

The best Paprika in the world are rated as follows:

#1 Hungarian Paprika

#2 Degi Mirch (Kashmir, India)

#3 Spanish Paprika

Answer 5

Also add Spanish paprika and smoked paprika to that list, great question!  Always wanted to know that myself.

Answer 6

Well as a former chef and having use alot and both from Hungary and Spain, all the answers so far have a point, here is the real deal, Hungarian paprika come in 3 types, sweet, hot and now a smoked version, made from dried peppers grown all over Hungary, and blended like wine for flavour, Spanish to come in 3 forms like the Hungarian.

Spanish tends to bit lighter and sweeter while the Hungarian darker and more pronounced in flavour, I like Spanish for any application, but when making cabbage rolls, paprikash, goulash or other Hungarian dishes it is alot like soya sauce, you use the one from the country your cooking the food from. At least that is what I found in the 20+ years I was a chef in Canada, Jamaica, Singapore and Japan.