How Switching To Fresh Ground Pepper Will Change Your Food - Chowhound
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Black pepper is likely the most used spice in your kitchen. Whole black peppercorns are unripe pepper berries from the Piperaceae family that have been dried. Piperine is the main flavor compound in black pepper, which gives it spicy heat and activates your salivary glands so that you enjoy the flavors of your food more. Germacrene, limonene, pinene, and alpha-phellandrene are responsible for its aromas, which…
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