Collection: Our real peppers

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

The best known real pepper is, as mentioned, black pepper, the dried unripe berries of plants with the botanical name Piper nigrum. In Depeperwinkel  you will find this, along with several relatives that also contain piperine and are also used as pepper.  Among them are the long peppers and the tailed peppers, including the wild voatsiperifery and ashanti pepper. Only the assam pepper also contains another substance, which gives a narcotic stimulus. Just like szechuan pepper, a pseudo-pepper.