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Nature Natural Inc., USA is certified Organic Supplier of Organic Black Pepper Powder, Black Pepper extract Powder and Capsule from India. We are Black Pepper suppliers to some leading traders, distributors and manufacturers at USA, European Union, Canada, Japan, Malaysia and South America.

Our Black Pepper from India is cultivated by the Tribal of Orissa practicing Organic farming. Our Farmers are Organic certified by USDA-NOP standards. Our Annual production of Organic Black Pepper is 2000 M.T Demand for Black Pepper in the world market is growing due to increasing consumption of spices and supportive research on Black Pepper.

Our Black Peppers undergoes strict quality control, and is free from any pesticide and heavy metal residue. There is strict microbiological testing to ensure that our Black Pepper confirms to WHO standards.

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:-Classification-:

Kingdom: Plantae
Division : Angiosperma
Class : Dicotyledonae
Order : Piperales
Family : Piperaceae
Genus : Piper
Botanical Name: Piper nigrum

:-Vernacular names-:

Hindi Name : Gol Mirch, Kali mirch
Sanskrit : Maricha, Ushana
Kannada : Karemenasu
Marathi : Kali mirch
Gujarati : Kalamari
Bengali : Kalamorichi
Telugu : Miriyala

Part used : Fruits

Botanical Description : A climbing perennial shrub. Branches are stout, trailing and rooting at the node. Leaves entire, variable in breadth, 12.5 – 17.5cm by 5.0 – 12.5cm. Flowers are minute in spikes, usually dioecious, often female bears 2 anthers and the male, a pistillode. Fruiting spikes are variable in length. Fruits are globose and bright red when ripe, seeds usually globose. Fruits botanically described as drupe.

General Description: The best Pepper of commerce comes from Malabar. Pepper is mentioned by Roman writers in the fifth century. The plant can attain a height of 20 or more feet, but for commercial purposes it is restricted to 12 feet. The plant is propagated by cuttings and grown at the base of trees with a rough, prickly bark to support them. Between three or four years after planting they commence fruiting and their productiveness ends about the fifteenth year. The berries are collected as soon as they turn red and before they are quite ripe, they are then dried in the sun.

Geographical Sources: Black pepper is native to Malabar, a region in the Western Coast of South India, part o the union state Kerala. It is also grown in Malaysia and Indonesia since about that time when it was found in the Malabar Coast. In the last decades of the 20th century, pepper production increased dramatically as new plantations were founded in Thailand, Vietnam, China and Sri Lanka. The most important producers are India and Indonesia, which together account for about 50% of the whole production volume.

Geographical Distribution : The plant is widely cultivated in India, Ceylon and other tropical countries. This climbing perennial shrub grows in hot and moist places. Piper nigrum.

History/Region of Origin: In South India wild, and in Cochin-China; also cultivated in East and West Indies, Malay Peninsula, Malay Archipelago, Siam, Malabar, etc. Varieties -> In trade, the pepper grades are identified by their origin.

Composition : Piperine, which is identical in composition to morphia, volatile oil, a resin called Chavicin. Its medicinal activities depends mainly on its pungent resin and volatile oil, which is colourless, turning yellow with age, with a strong odour, and not so acrid a taste as the peppercorn; it also contains starch, cellulose and colouring. Black pepper contains about 3% essential oil, The essential oil of white pepper has received less attention; the content of essential oil is lower (1%).The pungent principle in pepper is an alkaloid-analog compound piperine.

Pharmacognosy : Macroscopic : The entire fruit almost globular about 4- 6.5mm diameter, brownish to black in colour, the surface is uneven , seeds almost white, aromatic with a pagent taste. Microscopic : Epicarp shows an outer layer of polygonal cells having a distinct cuticle and containing a dark brown to blackish contents, followed by 2-3 layers of thin walled parenchyma cells intermingled with greatly thickened isodiametric to radically elongated stone cells. Mesocarp is a comparatively broad zone constituting the greater area of the pericarp. The outer 7-8 layers of cells are parenchymatous and certain small starch grains and scattered among these cells will be noted larger secretion sacs with suberized walls and oil/resin contents. The next several layers of cells are compressed and fibrovascular bundles ramify in these region. Beneath the compressed cells a layer of larger oil cells having suberized walls and then a zone of two layers of small parenchyma cells are present. Endocarp consisting of single layer of stone cells whose radius & inner walls are more strongly signified than outer layer. A test consisting of 2-3 layers of compressed elongated cells beneath which is a pigment layer containing a dark – brown tannin substance. Inner zone of perisperm cells are radically elongated which embeds largely oleoresins besides starch and proteins substance. Tracheids are pitted, some of them show helical thickenings on their secondary wall.

Pharmacology : It has anti-allergic activity. Piperine strongly inhibits hepatic arylhydrocarbon hydroxylase and UDP-glucuronyl transferase activities, thus prolonging hexabartital sleeping time and zoxazolamine paralysis time in mice. Piperine enhanced the bioavailability of oxyphenylbutazone and there by potentiated its anti-inflammatory activity in rats. Trikatu (a combination of Piper longum, Piper nigrum and Zingiber officinale) is reported to enhance bioavailability6. Piper nigrum

Phytochemistry : Pepper contains volatile oil, the crystalline alkaloids, piperine, piperidine, piperettine and a resin. The minor alkaloids present are piperitine, piperolein A, piperolein B, piperanine, trichostachine. The volatile oil contains large amounts of terpenes, and a a-pinene, phellandrene, dipentene and sesquiterpenes. The pungency is ascribed to piperine and the resin. They do not have any of the alkaloids and isobutyl amides found in the fruit.

Traditional Use: In modern Indian medicine, it is much employed as an aromatic stimulant, in cholera weakness following fevers, vertigo, coma, etc., as a stomachic in dyspepsia and flatulence, as an antiperiodic in malarial fever. It is also used as an alterative in paraplegia and arthritic diseases. Externally, it is valued for its rubefacient properties and as a local application for relaxed sore throat, piles and some skin diseases.

Good for the stomach: Black pepper is used traditionally to treat stomach acid and prevent the formation of intestinal gas. It is sometimes made into preparations with other substances including cow's urine.