Black pepper and white pepper are both commonly used in our daily life as a seasoning, although there is only a difference of one word, but the difference between them is still very big, so the two kinds of pepper in the end has what difference?

First of all, their color is certainly not the same, but are the same crop, pepper is a tropical organism, almost we see on the market pepper are imported from abroad, the two kinds of pepper in fact are a crop, but they are not quite the same time to pick, the formation of the difference between the black and white pepper, black pepper is actually pepper in the process of growth is still immature, at this time, the pepper shell shows black, this time, the pepper shell shows black. The pepper shell shows black, this time to pick processing into black pepper, on the contrary, if you wait until the pepper is fully mature, the black shell will fall off, revealing the inside of the white fruit, that is, white pepper.

In the flavor, black pepper will smell more spicy some, more intense flavor, while white pepper is more fragrant, taste more quiet some, black pepper is generally used to increase the flavor of the dishes when cooking, more in the grilled ingredients, while the white pepper flavor is not as spicy as black pepper, strong, so just let the original has been very tasty food to add some flavor, more for the when making soup.

White pepper is generally medicinal value will be higher, but the taste is not as good as black pepper, white pepper taste spicy, is with the stomach, the role of cold, black pepper is the role of warm spleen and kidney, the general production of Western food, more like the use of black pepper, such as steak we often eat, with black pepper, white pepper or not suitable for this kind of fried food cooking.

But whether it is black pepper or white pepper, in the use of flavor, be sure to wait until the food is about to pot when you can add, rather than in the middle of cooking food to start adding pepper flavor, in which case a long time cooking will let the pepper flavor directly evaporated, completely failed to achieve the effect of freshness.