Black pepper (Piper nigrum L) in 100 gms and 50 gms packs, a highly aromatic warming spice with a sharp, hot and biting taste. It is listed as fine ground and appears as whole, wrinkled black peppercorns. Widely accepted for its superb flavour and bite, it is made with quality kept consistent, since flavour is everything to its customers. Pepper brings warmth and pungency to vegetarian dishes across North India; in South India it is a flavouring spice and goes into meat marinades. One of the oldest and important spices in the world, it was once used to pay taxes in Egypt and Israel, and in 410 A.D. Rome demanded 3000 pounds of pepper as ransom. Family: Piperaceae. Commercial part: fruit. Catalogue code: SIR10046 (100 gms), SIR10218 (50 gms)