is pepper a compound?

Question

is black pepper or regular pepper a compound or a chemical compound?

Answer 1

Pepper gets its spicy heat mostly from the piperine compound, which is found both in the outer fruit and in the seed. Refined piperine, milligram-for-milligram, is about one per cent as hot as the capsaicin in chile peppers.

click on the link below to read details about Piperine =

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piperine

For details about Capsaicin kindly click on the link below ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsaicin

Answer 2

It's not an element, if that's what you mean. It's definately a mixture of many chemical compounds.