Black Pepper ‘West Coast’ MG1, Cracked (1000g)

Product Code: GSI006

12,50

Green Saffron ethically sourced direct from farm, highest grade Cracked Black Pepper. New season, single source guaranteed. Our unique supply chain offers you full transparency and traceability, bringing you closer to the farmer with the fewest steps. See below for further details.

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About the product

The most traded, biggest volume spice in the world. Indian pepper is different to globally traded commodity peppers of Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Guatamala, Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere. More sophisticated notes, more intriguingly vibrant perfume flavours. More impact. We stock two types of black pepper, one sourced from Karnataka (this one), the other from Kerala. Our standard pepper is from Karnataka. Caryophyllene is responsible for sweet floral odour in pepper, chavicine the perfume and piperine the heat. It is reported that the levels of a-phellandrene and limonene in black pepper oil are higher than those in white pepper oil, which could be the reason for milder flavour of white pepper than that of the black pepper.

You can find our whole black pepper here.

You can find our ground black pepper here.

Black pepper:

So well-known and distinctive that the descriptive term ‘peppery’ is widely used when describing other aromas, it is pungent with a sharp, yet, warming, woody, fresh leather, Parma Violet almost vanilla note. Perfumed-hot-pungent.

Part Used

Fruit

Provenance

Karnataka, South West India

Harvest Time

November to March

Flavour note (bass, mid, high)

MID. Pungent with a sharp, yet, warming, woody, fresh leather, Parma Violet almost vanilla note.

Main flavour compounds

alpha and beta pinenes, piperine, chavicine, careen, limonene, cubenol, asaricin and 2-ethyl-3,5dimethylpyrazine (also found in cacao), caryophyllene.

Storage

Airtight and out of the light. Ideally not above 14°C

Use by

6 months from date