Black Pepper,Black Pepper Seed,Piper nigrum,Piper:the Kind of spices,one of the oldest and the most popular spice in the world.

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Habitata,Cultivation and Origin of Pepper.

Black Pepper Extract INCI Name Piper Nigrum Extract CAS 84929-41-9 EINECS ELINCS No 284-524-7 Black Pepper Fruit Extract Bioperine Extract Piper Hei Hu Jiao Bai Hu Jiao Lv Hu Jiao Blanc Poivre Kosho Pepe green peppercorns Pfeffer Pimenta Pimienta Poivre Noir White Pepper photo picture image

 In South India wild, Native to southwestern India, pepper is now cultivated in tropical areas around the world.and in Cochin-China; also cultivated in East and West Indies, Malay Peninsula, Malay Archipelago, Siam, Malabar, etc.

 The fruit is harvested from plants at least 3 years old. Green peppercorns are picked unripe and pickled, black peppercorns are picked unripe and dried, red peppercorns are picked ripe and dried, and white peppercorns are picked ripe and soaked in water for 8 days before drying.
 Black Pepper Extract INCI Name Piper Nigrum Extract CAS 84929-41-9 EINECS ELINCS No 284-524-7 Black Pepper Fruit Extract Bioperine Extract Piper Hei Hu Jiao Bai Hu Jiao Lv Hu Jiao Blanc Poivre Kosho Pepe green peppercorns Pfeffer Pimenta Pimienta Poivre Noir White Pepper photo picture image

 Origin of Pepper or Black Pepper:

 Pepper refers to any of a great number of plants of the nightshade family, Solanaceae, notably Capsicum annuum L. (Sweet Pepper), Capsicum frutescens L.; and Zanthoxylum piperitum (L.) DC. (Sichuan Pepper) of the family Rutaceae; extensively cultivated throughout tropical Asia and equatorial America for their edible, pungent fruits.

 Peppers, which have been found in prehistoric remains in Peru, were widely grown in Central and South America in pre-Columbian times. Pepper seeds were carried to Spain in 1493 and from there spread rapidly throughout Europe.

 The genus Capsicum comprises all the varied forms of fleshy-fruited peppers grown as herbaceous annuals the red, green, and yellow peppers rich in vitamins A and C that are used in seasoning and as a vegetable food. Hot peppers, used as relishes, pickled, or ground into a fine powder for use as spices.

 In addition to the cherry (Cerasiforme group) and red cluster (Fasciculatum), these hot varieties, which are red when mature, include the tabasco (Conoides), which is commonly ground and mixed with vinegar to produce a hot sauce, and the long hot chili and cayenne (Longum), often called capsicums.

 Cayenne pepper, said to have originated in Cayenne in French Guiana, is one of the spices derived from these peppers and is produced in many parts of the world.

 The mild bell or sweet peppers (Grossum) have larger, variously coloured but generally bell-shaped, furrowed, puffy fruits that are used in salads and in cooked dishes. These varieties are harvested when bright green in color before the appearance of red or yellow pigment about 60 to 80 days after transplanting.

 Pepper plants are treated as tender summer annuals outside their native habitat. They are propagated by planting seed directly in the field or by transplanting seedlings started in greenhouses or hotbeds after six to ten weeks.
 Black Pepper Extract INCI Name Piper Nigrum Extract CAS 84929-41-9 EINECS ELINCS No 284-524-7 Black Pepper Fruit Extract Bioperine Extract Piper Hei Hu Jiao Bai Hu Jiao Lv Hu Jiao Blanc Poivre Kosho Pepe green peppercorns Pfeffer Pimenta Pimienta Poivre Noir White Pepper photo picture image

 Pepper is used in traditional Chinese medicine as a warming herb. In China, pepper is mainly produced in the provinces Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, etc. Harvested at the end of autumn to spring of the next year when the fruit becomes red or dark green, it is dried in the sun, resulting in black pepper; or picked and reaped when the fruit turns red, soaked in water and dried in the sun after the pulp is rubbed away, making white pepper; then pounded for use when raw.

 Black pepper is native to Malabar, a region in the Western Coast of South India; today, this region belongs to the union state Kerala. Pepper is cultivated since millennia. The wild form has not yet been unambigously identified, but there are closely related pepper species in South India and Burma. While black and white pepper were already known in antiquity, but green pepper (and even more, red pepper) is a recent invention.

 Pepper reached South East Asia more than two thousand years ago and is grown in Malaysia and Indonesia since about that time. In the last decades of the 20.th century, pepper production increased dramatically as new plantations were founded in Thailand, Vietnam, China and Sri Lanka. In the New World, Brazil is the only important producer; pepper plantations there go back to the 1930s.

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