Peppercorns :These peppercorns, I found in my aunt's house. They grow in their garden. It's a flowering vine. Each year she gets around 750-900 grams of Black Pepper from a plant.
Black Pepper is the world's most traded spice. Black Pepper is native to South India. Black Pepper, White pepper are from the same plant. Black Pepper is produced from the unriped drupes of the pepper plant. The green color unripe drupes are plucked from the plant and then they keep the corns to dry in the sun. In some places, the drupes are cooked in hot water to clean and then they dry it.The outer layer of the riped corns removed and dried is the White Pepper. This white pepper is used for salads, Chinese foods, sauce and in Thai foods. Pepper oil and spirits are extracted from the dried pepper corns. This pepper oil is used for herbal treatments, Ayurveda massage and also in some beauty products.
