Collection: Our &quot;pseudo&quot; <tc>pepper</tc>s

Pseudopeppers are often called 'false' in other languages peppers called. In French, for example, the term "faux poivre" is used, and in English, "false pepper." In common usage the term is pepper 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 chilipeppers. Under pseudonympeppers we understand all spices from other plant genera that are used in a similar way because of their pungency. these two "real" peppers.

In several countries such pseudopeppers the standard, as in Japan, where black pepper and chilipepper losing out to Szechuanpepper, usually sansho. In Europe some of the pseudopepperhas been completely forgotten, like grains of paradise and selim. In Africa, where both of these originate, the Asian black pepper and long pepper, the native peppers, even the African long pepper, a real one pepper.

The differences between the botanically different peppers concern both the degree of sharpness and the taste. As for the sharpness, only Plants from the Piperaceae family contain the pungent substance piperine. Pseudopeppers appeal to our sharpness receptors in very different ways. As with sanshool, the stimulating substance in the peppers from the Zanthoxylum genus (the Szechuanpeppers), which numbs the tongue.

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