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Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit (the peppercorn), which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit is a drupe (stonefruit) which is about 5 mm (0.20 in) in diameter (fresh and fully mature), dark red, and contains a stone which encloses a single pepper seed .
Kampot pepper is grown, produced and sold in green, black, white and red varieties, all from the same plant. [4] The climate of Kampot Province offers perfect conditions for growing pepper and the quartz content of the soil in the foothills of the Elephant Mountains helps to give Kampot pepper its unique terroir. [5] [6]
The fruit, known as a peppercorn when dried, is a small drupe five millimetres in diameter, dark red when fully mature, containing a single seed. [4] Malabar pepper is classified under two grades known as garbled and un-garbled. The garbled variety is black in colour nearly globular with a wrinkled surface.
Culinary use of pepper plants is attested perhaps as early as 9,000 years ago. Peppercorn remains were found among the food refuse left by Hoabinhian artisans at Spirit Cave, Thailand. It is likely that these plants were collected from the wild rather than deliberately grown. [5] [6] Black pepper (Piper nigrum) corns, from left to right:
Black dammar چندرس Chandras Canarium strictum: Black mica ابرک سیاہ Abrak Siyah Biotite: Black musli سیاہ موصلی Siyah Musli Curculigo orchioides: Black mustard seeds رائی Rai Brassica nigra: Black nightshade مکوہ خشک Makoh Khushk Solanum nigrum: Black-eyed Susan roots بیخ سوسن Beekh-e-Susan Rudbeckia hirta
It’s a small black fruit that resembles a grape, but without a grape’s stem. It grows all over a tree, and to the untrained eye, the tree looks like it’s infested with bugs.
Grains of paradise (Aframomum melegueta) is a species in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae, and closely related to cardamom.Its seeds are used as a spice (ground or whole); it imparts a pungent, black-pepper-like flavor with hints of citrus.
There is a record from Tamil texts of Greeks purchasing large sacks of black pepper from India, and many recipes in the 1st-century Roman cookbook Apicius make use of the spice. The trade in spices lessened after the fall of the Roman Empire, but demand for ginger, black pepper, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg revived the trade in later centuries. [19]
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