black pepper
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Diane Foster
@DianeScorpio (22)
• Nottingham, England
30 Oct
If your cupboards vanished today, which 3 shelf-stable items would you replace first? For me, it would be olive oil, dried pasta, and black pepper. (And I always have Parmesan in the fridge)
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
18 Mar 25
This is the first time in years that we do not see much pepper. The weather perhaps was not conducive to its yield..
We normally sell black pepper and keep some for our consumption We have enough from last year's lot for...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23241)
25 Jul 23
There are huge farmlands of tea plantations in the north where black pepper and white pepper is grown by cover farming. The fertilizer that is used are all organic in nature. So when the black pepper or white pepper grow they dont...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23241)
16 May 23
If the same crop is planted every year gradually the fertility reduces down. In the tea gardens of Bhutan, they plant the cardomom and black pepper trees in between the tea plantations. The existence of the spice trees maintain...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23241)
13 Oct 22
In the terraces of Nepal the tea is grown in slopes. In the same land there is a form of cover farming with turmeric and black pepper and white pepper also grown. As the soils are fertile very quality brand of the tea and also the...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23241)
19 Oct 21
In Phulbani and Daringbari the black pepper plantations are adjacent to the coffee plantations and spice gardens. In the raw form the black pepper looks green. Later on after plucked and processed it turns into the black form in...
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
18 Jun 21
We have pepper vines that cling on most trees here specially areca. They just need a rough surface to cling to.
The pepper ripens around December and we come to know of it as birds flock around these vines. The process then...
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Mavic123456
@Mavic123456 (21891)
• Thailand
1 Mar 20
This is one of the spices I truly love. These are not peas maybe some of you might think that these are peas. But no, these are truly peppercorn just fresh and the black ones were the dried ones.
I can have this on every food...
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s sivasubrahmanyam
@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
14 Apr 17
Yes. I found an effective alternative for Coffee. I can have it instead of coffee whenever I feel like having this slow butcher. Coffee though it is a mood booster and rejuvenates our inner soul to take up the morning challenges...
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s sivasubrahmanyam
@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
2 Oct 16
Black pepper is a spicy fruit available throughout the year. It is grown mostly in Kerala the Souther state of India. This is having antibacterial properties. Hence used to preserve food and this is rich in Manganese, Potassium,...
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Dr Souvik Chatterji
@sathviksouvik (23241)
31 May 16
Black pepper is reduced into powder and used a lot in India to give taste in food.
Black pepper has many food benefits. It has iron, Vitamin C, A, potassium, calcium.
It relieves person from indigestion, gas, also helps in sore...
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LivnLovnNLernn
@LivnLovnNLernn (33)
• United States
8 Mar 09
My husband was having stomach pain and some intestinal problems. A Colonoscopy was ordered and some other tests. He was found to have DIVERTICILITIS.
Now my husband is a CAJUN, raised in Southern Louisianna, along the coast. You...
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