The difference between pepper and peppercorns is the difference in appearance, taste, composition, origin and family.

1, the appearance of the difference

First of all, the fruit of the pepper is the size of green bean particles, but food is generally eaten in its skin, many Sichuan hot pot are less to put pepper; and pepper is a round shape of the berry, there are white pepper and black pepper points, usually eat more black pepper, and pepper is eaten inside the fruit shell is not edible.

2, the difference in taste

Pepper flavor is relatively strong, but the numbness is smaller than pepper, but there is still a numbness, and the taste of pepper is spicy, so used to cook more easily accepted some of the more common in the kitchen is pepper, but the white pepper is more spicy than the black pepper, so daily we choose more black pepper! The pepper can sometimes be used as a substitute for salt.

3, the difference in composition

Pepper is the main component of alkaloids, organic acids and volatile oils, pepper's main phytochemicals (piperine), piperine, piperine and volatile oils.

4, origin difference

Pepper is native to Southeast Asia, China, Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan provinces and regions are cultivated, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Brazil are the main exporters of pepper. Pepper is suitable for warm and humid and deep fertile loamy soil, sandy loam, strong sprouting, cold, drought, like sunlight, disease resistance, originating in the north from the south of Northeast, south to the northern slopes of the Five Ridges, Southeast to Jiangsu, Zhejiang coastal belt, southwest to southeastern Tibet, Taiwan, Hainan, and Guangdong does not produce.

5, family differences

Pepper for the plant kingdom, angiosperms, dicotyledonous plants, primitive perianth subclass, Piperaceae, Piperaceae, Piperaceae woody climbing vine plants. Pepper is a deciduous shrub or small tree of Plantae, Angiosperms, Dicotyledons, Primitive Perianth subclass, Rutaceae, Rutaceae, Rutaceae, Pepper genus, Pepper subgenus.