Black pepper

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Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit. Which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit known as a peppercorn when dried is approximately 5 millimetres (0.20 in) in diameter, dark red when fully mature and like all drupes contains a single seed.Peppercorns and the ground pepper derived from them may be described simply as pepper or more precisely as black pepper (cooked and dried unripe fruit). Green pepper (dried unripe fruit) and white pepper (unripe fruit seeds).
Black pepper is native to south India and is extensively cultivated there and elsewhere in tropical regions. Currently Vietnam is the world's largest producer and exporter of pepper. Producing 34% of the world's Piper nigrum crop as of 2008.Dried ground pepper has been used since antiquity for both its flavor and as a medicine. Black pepper is the world's most traded spice. It is one of the most common spices added to European cuisine and its descendants.
The spiciness of black pepper is due to the chemical piperine, not to be confused with the capsaicin that gives fleshy peppers theirs.The drupes are dried in the sun or by machine for several days. During which the pepper around the seed shrinks and darkens into a thin, wrinkled black layer.