Collection: Our "pseudo" <tc>pepper</tc>s

Pseudopepers are often called "false" peppers in other languages. In French, for example, the term "faux poivre" is used, and in English, "false pepper." In colloquial usage the term pepper is used for both plants from the gender Piper from the Piperaceae family as plants from the genus Capsicum from the Solanaceae family, better known as chili peppers. Pseudo peppers are all spices from other plant genera that are used in a similar way to chili peppers for their pungency. these two "real" peppers.

In several countries, such pseudo peppers are the standard, such as in Japan, where black pepper and chili pepper are inferior to Szechuan pepper, usually sansho. In Europe, some of the pseudo peppers traditionally used there, such as grain of paradise and selim, have been completely forgotten. In Africa, where both of these originate, the Asian black pepper and long pepper, the native peppers, even the African long pepper, a real pepper.

The differences between the botanically different peppers concern both the degree of spiciness and the taste. As for the spiciness, only Plants in the Piperaceae family contain the pungent substance piperine. Pseudopeppers appeal to our pungency receptors in a variety of ways. For example, sanshool, the pungent substance in peppers from the Zanthoxylum genus (Szechuan peppers), numbs the tongue.

We take you on a world trip with our pseudo peppers that is more than worth the effort.