All belong to the seasoning, of which pepper, pepper can also be used as traditional Chinese medicine, mace is a kind of pepper, but there is a clear difference

1, pepper, Chinese medicine. For the pepper family plant pepper Piper nigrum L. dry nearly mature or mature fruit. Late fall to the next spring when the fruit is dark green harvested, dried in the sun, for the black pepper; fruit reddened when harvested, impregnated with water for a few days, rubbing off the pulp, dried in the sun, for the white pepper.

It has the effect of being spicy in aroma and delicious to wake up the stomach. Generally ground into powder, put in meat or soup use, pay attention to and meat with cooking time should not be too long, because the black pepper contains pepper chili alkaloids, pepper fat alkaloids, volatile oils and fat oils, the fire is too long will make the spicy and flavor evaporate away.

2, pepper is China's unique spice, ranked among the spices "thirteen spices" first. Whether braised, marinated, small dishes, Sichuan pickles, chicken, duck, fish, sheep and cattle dishes can be used to it, can also be coarsely ground into powder and salt mixed for pepper salt, for dipping. Divided into two kinds of big pepper and step pepper, for good seasoning spices, but also can be extracted oil, oil yield in more than 25%.

Pepper oil has a strong flavor, is a good edible oil. The production of peppercorns has a numbing and spicy flavor, and the aroma overflows only after frying. It can be used alone in cooking, such as pepper noodles; it can also be prepared with other raw materials into condiments, which are extremely versatile and effective, such as five-spice noodles, pepper salt, onion and pepper salt.

3, hemp pepper

Hemp pepper is seasoning, hemp pepper light color, brownish yellow; pepper color heavy, brownish red. The flavor of hemp pepper is heavier than pepper. Only Guizhou produced hemp pepper to boil out that special hemp flavor. The rind of this kind of pepper has a special aroma and strong and persistent numbness.