What is Ground Pepper made from, as in Salt & Pepper....?

Question

Is it a red/green pepper? - cos they aren't peppery, or is a ground up chili pepper? - they are more hot than peppery, or is it some other pepper??

Answer 1

Pepper corns.

Achoo! Ha ha ha. Pepper is a spice that launched a thousand ships–well, actually the search for pepper launched the ships. That's one reason Christopher Columbus went looking for India, and we all know how that ended.

Black pepper and white pepper come from the fruit of a vine, Piper nigrum, native to India and Sri Lanka. The pepper you use today hails from Indonesia, India, Brazil, and other hot, tropical places.

This perennial vine has a small, green berry. The berry is red when it's ripe. As the berries change colour, they're gathered, cleaned, and dried. As the berries dry, they turn black and you've got...peppercorns! For white pepper, cultivators allow the berries to ripen. The husk is removed and the seeds are soaked in water, dried, and rubbed–white pepper!

Black and white pepper taste different too. Pepper's sharp taste comes from a weak alkaloid, piperine. White pepper contains more piperine than black.

Apparently, Piper nigrum is a good remedy for flatulence.

Answer 2

Ground pepper is what it says it is. There are these black peppercorns that give food a spice. Some people like using very small ground-up black pepper while some like the bigger course type of black pepper for seasoning. When the explores came over to the western hemisphere they noticed the green, red and various other vegetable produce growing hot stuff. They of course tasted and they assumed it was part of the pepper family that is why we have chili peppers, jalapeno, pequin, anaheim and so on.

Answer 3

Black peppercorns make black pepper, however most pepper mills today come with three kinds of peppercorns, red/green/black. I believe back is the most "flavorful" as in the most peppery. I am not sure if the red/green have the exact same flavor or if they tend to be a lighter taste??

Answer 4

Pepper, as in salt and pepper, is made from ground peppercorns.

The stuff you get from the market is very flavorless.

If you get good, whole peppercorns and grind them in a peppermill, you will notice a significant difference in flavor, texture and taste.

In my cabinet, I have black, white, pink, green and tellicherry peppercorns. I put them in the mill as needed.

I also crack them (put some between waxed paper and roll my rolling pin over them with a heavy hand) to coat pork chops and steaks.

The website below is where I order most of my spices from. It will give you a nice article for their peppercorns.

Answer 5

Usually fine ground black peppercorns. But I make a blend of black, white, pink, and green in the coffee grinder. Now that's zippy!

Answer 6

totally different kind of pepper to pimiento/bell peppers..
it is usually from black pepper corns, though can get white/red/green pepper corns also..

for a little more info have a look at this site.. http://www.yesmag.bc.ca/Questions/pepper.html

Answer 7

Its commonly black or white peppercorns, although you can get mills with mixed corns which inlcude red.

Look in the spices next time you go to a supermarket!

Answer 8

It's pepper corns. Big seeds which you can buy whole in jars from superstores and grind yourself if you want. Black ones are great over roasted cheese toast!! mmmmmm

Answer 9

It's called Black Peppercorn!

Answer 10

All it is is Black pepper corns, or White pepper corns.