Collection: Our real <tc>pepper</tc>s

In common parlance it is referred to as 'pepper'usually either black pepper understand or chilipepper. But there is so much more! Under real peppers we understand the fresh and dried fruits of plants belonging to the plant family PiperaceaeThese are the only ones that contain the pungent substance piperine, an alkaloid just like capsaicin, the pungent substance in chili.peppers. Piperine is compared to capsaicin quite mild. However, a pepper as quite sharp be experienced, because other receptors are stimulated.

The most famous real pepper is as said the black one pepper, the dried unripe berries of plants with the botanical name Piper nigrum. In Depeperwinkel you will find this, along with several family members that also contain piperine and also as pepper are used. Below that the long peppers and the tailpeppers, including the wild voatsiperifery and ashantipepper. Only the Assampepper also contains another substance that has a numbing effect. Just like Szechuanpepper, a pseudo-pepper.