Most Used Spice In The World: Salt is used in food all over the world. Salt is not only eaten for taste, but it is also the need of the body. If there is a shortage of salt in the body in excess, then the life of a person can be threatened. Well, this is the matter of salt. Now let’s talk about the spice which is most liked in the world. This is the reason that from fast food to tradition It is used everywhere in cuisine to enhance its taste. The name of this spice is chili and black pepper is also in chili.
Yes, in our country people may have a craze to eat red chili tadka and green chili pickle. But black pepper is preferred more in the rest of the world. Here is a twist of the story, you should know that black pepper is mostly used in chili, but processed seeds of capsicum are used many times more than black pepper. Learn interesting things related to the consumption of black pepper and chili here, you will know everything…
interesting facts about black pepper
- There is no black pepper plant, but black pepper grows on the vine. Yes, black pepper grows on a long green vine.
- It takes about 3 years for the black pepper vine to grow and bear fruit. It takes 7 to 8 years to mature and give full crop.
- The life of a vine of black pepper is about 20 years.
- A lot of flowers come on the vine first in the form of bunches and then these flowers dry up and fruits come in their place.
- Black pepper is like green peas in the beginning and then it becomes white after drying and when it starts drying completely, it starts turning black.
- After salt, chili is one such spice which is most commonly used all over the world. Black is the second most used spice in the world after salt.
- There is chili, but this fact will surprise you that about 20 times more seeds of capsicum are used than black pepper.
- If salt is removed, capsicum seeds are used in large quantities all over the world. The price of a 10 gram packet of these refined and ready-to-use seeds ranges from 1200 to 1500. They are used in garnishing of fast food.
- The green and white varieties of black pepper are at different stages of maturity but all of them are used. That is, when the black pepper is green, it is plucked and used as a pickle. Its white grains are the richest in terms of taste, hence they are also the most expensive. While it is used world wide in its final form i.e. black pepper.
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