Black Pepper ‘West Coast’ MG1, Whole (1000g)
Product Code: GSI005
€12.50
Green Saffron ethically sourced direct from farm, highest grade Whole Balck 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 (find it here). 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 cracked 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
