She who has the pepper, dictates the spice and season.

What is Black pepper?

Black pepper,Piper nigrum,is a plant largely cultivated for its spicy fruit, peppercorn,dried and used often for cooking,sometimes as its oil in aromatherapy and powder in pain relief creams,gels etc.

The plant is a flowering vine that belongs to the family Piperaceae.A black pepper plant produce fruit that ripens dark red,reach about 5 milimetres in diameter and contains a single seed when the fruit is fresh and fully mature like all drupes.

What does black pepper taste like?

Black Pepper has a sharp,spicy intense flavour with a characteristic woody, hot and biting taste.

Does black pepper taste different than white pepper?

Yes.black pepper is more spicy because of the way it is processed differently from white pepper.

Unlike black pepper that are drupes, white peppers are berries. When fully ripe, their fruits are harvested and soaked in water for days to ferment before each fruit's outer layer (pericarp) is peeled off completely, losing some of its piperine in the processs. That is why the white pepper tastes less spicy when compared to the taste of black pepper.

Is piperine the same as black pepper?

Black pepper is the common name for dried fruit of the plant, Piper nigrum while piperine is that chemical substance found in substantial amount in the black pepper fruit which is responsible for the pungent sharp spicy taste of black pepper. It is an alkaloid like capsaicin found in chilli sauce and, like capsaicin, can be isolated from the fruit and sold in its pure form. It is used in some pharmaceutical preparations.

How do you isolate black pepper piperine?





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