Description

Origin:  Vietnam

Expiration Date: Provided on the bag

Our Pepper is 100% free of any artificial colours or preservatives.

Black Pepper is a climbing plant that reaches up to 5 meters high. It has big bunches of small round fruits. Black pepper is the immature green fruit of the Piper nigrum plant. This immature fruit is collected and dried in the sun and becomes black.

It is the most commercial spice in the world and is known in all cuisines. It is used in almost all foods, salads, sauces, meat, fish, vegetables, pasta. It is also used in pharmacy and perfumery.

What tradition says:

Pepper was cultivated in India since the 13th century. The Arabs transferred pepper by land to Alexandria of Egypt and so slowly acquired their monopoly. At that time, pepper in some areas was replacing the domestic currency.

In Byzantium, because it was very expensive, only the emperors and their yard enjoyed it. The great explorers must discoveries in the pepper because trying to find alternative routes to India in order to squeeze out the Arabs and in achieving this goal, discovered new places.

The control of India was finally conquered by the English, but in the meantime (16th century) pepper began to be cultivated in Sumatra, Malaysia, Cambodia and Madagascar. So when imports to Europe became massive in the 17th-18th centuries, pepper prices began to fall and ceased to be the privilege of the rich.