Pepper pepper fruits belong Branch "Peper Nigrum" trailing plants, containing volatile oil, fennel water, starch, pigments, proteins. Pepper, white pepper, black pepper and two kinds of light green when unripe fruits, like grapes hanging on the branches of a string, the immature fruit drying off, the peel will turn dark brown, it becomes general so-called "black pepper." Pepper contains vitamins A and B complex, and rich in minerals such as sodium, calcium, iron, potassium and phosphorus. Liu Yi in the description, the more black pepper, white pepper has more potassium, vitamins A and E, white pepper then contain more sodium, the taste is slightly heavier.
Pepper fruit contains volatile oil, piperine, crude fat, crude protein, is a favorite condiment. Jianwei agents can also be used in medicine, antipyretic agents, diuretics and bronchial mucous membrane irritation, etc., to treat indigestion, Han Tan, enteritis, bronchitis, colds and rheumatism. Also in the food industry is also used as a preservative Efficacy: chefs prefer to use black pepper in cooking, probably because it tastes more dense, make dishes with a spicy fragrance reached, delicious appetizing effect. White pepper-based medicinal value, flavor, followed by the role of detoxification, and cold, and stomach, especially for lung cold, stomach curative. Itself has a spicy pepper effect, can make blood vessels to dilate and help heat; pepper and cook dishes with very special appetizer, can stimulate the brain functioning, thereby increasing the gastric acid secretion, is a summer dish seasoning recipe. Black pepper taste spicy, white pepper is more aromatic, summer can Qushu, then they can fend off the cold winter eating. In addition, can also promote the secretion of saliva, gastric stimulation, increase appetite, lower gas, temperature, and expectorant and other effects, but also can be used as seasoning to remove the smell of meat.