Herbs & Spices
🌶️Pepper Family
Piperaceae
~3,600 species, 3 major culinary species
The family that gives us the world's most traded spice: black pepper. These tropical climbing vines produce small berries packed with piperine, the compound responsible for their sharp bite.
Source: Wikipedia💡Black pepper was so valuable in medieval Europe that it was used as currency — the term 'peppercorn rent' comes from this era.
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