BLACK PEPPER FROM VIETNAM
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Black pepper is produced from the still-green, unripe
drupe of the pepper plant. The drupes are cooked
briefly in hot water,both to clean them and to
prepare them for drying. The heat ruptures cell walls
in the pepper, speeding the work of browning enzymes
during drying. The drupes dry in the sun or by
machine for several days, during which the pepper
skin around the seedshrinks and darkens into a thin,
wrinkled black layer. Once dry, the spice is called
black peppercorn. On some estates, theberries are
separated from the stem by hand and then sun-dried
without the boiling process.Once the peppercorns are
dried, pepper spirit and oil can be extracted from
the berries by crushing them. Pepper spirit is used
inmany medicinal and beauty products. Pepper oil is
also used as an ayurvedic massage oil and in certain
beauty and herbaltreatments.