Whole Black Peppercorn: Commercial peppercorns available in the markets may vary in colors. However, all kinds of peppercorns arenothing but the same pepper fruit which picked up from the plant at different stages ofmaturity and subjected to different methods of processing. In general,peppercorns harvested while half-mature and just about toturn red. They are then left to dry under the sunlight until theydry, shrivel and turn black (black peppercorns). Alternatively,green peppercorns picked while the berries still unripe and green. The white peppercorngot its name when a completely ripe berry soaked in the brine in orderto remove its dark, outer skin, exposing inner white-color pepper seed.Black peppers have a strong pungent flavor that comes from volatile-oils,such as piperine. In case of milled-peppers, these volatile oils maydisappear because of evaporation. Cubeb or tailed pepper berries are dried, unripefruits of the Piper cubeba vine that grows mainly in the Indonesian rain forest.They appear similar to black peppercorns but have a characteristicstalk which is often interpreted as a "tail." Cubeb berries have adistinctive flavor because of monoterpene essential oil, cubebene.

Allergy Advice : This product is packed in factory which also processes; Soya products, Peanuts, Nuts, Sesame seeds, Cereals, Milk, Mustard, Celery, Sulphites & Sulphur Dioxide and wheat.

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