Ground black pepper, Ali Baba, 100g

Black pepper is probably the world's most popular spice. These black peppercorns have a distinctive fresh and spicy flavour. They can be ground and are also suitable for seasoning dishes.

Seeds of the climbing tropical plant Piper nigrum. One of the most widely used spices in the world. It makes food spicy and, like other spicy spices, facilitates digestion.

Black pepper is a fruit that is picked unripe and dried at a certain temperature. Under these conditions, green peppers turn black when exposed to enzymes, just like tea leaves.

If unripe peppers are quickly dried over a high heat on a fire, marinated in brine or dried, the fermentation process stops and the peppers remain green. Green peppers are less spicy and more aromatic.

Ripe red peppers cannot be dried like black peppers as they are high in sugar. However, the top layer of the fruit is mechanically peeled off after soaking in water for a few days and the rest is dried. Thus, white pepper does not consist of the whole fruit, but only of the seed (nucleolus), is creamy white in colour, very spicy and less aromatic than black pepper.

Ingredients: groundblack pepper.

Storage conditions: store in a dry, cool place.