The key to peppercorns comes from the Sichuan region in China, but other plains regions and coastal cities are also planted. Peppercorns are heavier in color, mostly reddish brown, and the surface has a vent, but there is no tumor-like protrusions. Taste level, peppercorns smell strong, but the taste of hemp is poor, cooking is often used peppercorns skin, can be matched with a variety of ingredients, for meat food with freshness, in addition to fishy, deodorant effect. Naturally, in addition to the main use of seasoning, pepper or wood fuel, can be made into pepper oil, can also be made into tea.

And pepper and pepper is completely different, pepper is produced in the tropical jungles of India, only later spread to our country. Pepper is generally oval shaped fruit, the shell is generally can not be taken, and there is also a difference between white pepper and black pepper. Pepper contains pungent flavor, especially white pepper, in cooking ingredients can enhance the flavor, suitable for cooking fishy flavor is very heavy ingredients, with the fishy taste, grease and its effect of promoting digestion. In addition, pepper also has excellent medicinal properties, can dissipate cold, stomach digestion, promote digestion.

Pepper is a dual-purpose ingredient for medicine and food. To do the case of seasoning, black pepper is mostly used to fishy very heavy meat ingredients in addition to fishy, or in the cooking of sharp meat dishes seasoned with, such as frying steak is often seen black pepper seasoning; pepper is mostly used to cook white meat food or seafood products ingredients, often in the cooking of meat soup application. The medicinal effect of pepper is higher than that of black pepper, which is known in Chinese medicine as the effect of warming the stomach and dispersing cold when taken appropriately. Pepper flour is the essential Sichuan flavor condiments, cooking the main purpose is also very wide, in a variety of braised dishes, brine, pickles, coleslaw and its cooking meat food dishes, are able to apply pepper flour, but also can be tossed with salt into a spicy, for dipping to take.

From the main use, pepper belongs to the food and medicine with dual-use ingredients, black pepper is mostly used to meat ingredients in addition to fishy, or cooking red meat food ingredients, pepper is mostly used to cook meat soup; and pepper is essential to the Sichuan flavor of the spices, the main purpose of the very wide, can be applied in the preparation of the dishes, but also can be done with salt dipping material. Peppercorns purchase method: good peppercorns usually in the appearance of the design of the grain large and rounded, well-proportioned block head, peppercorns internal structure without nucleus. Good pepper in the mouth to chew, taste hemp and long, no other odor. The flavor smells of hemp aroma is strong and long for a good pepper. The surface is purple or reddish brown, the internal structure of light yellow, finger rubbing does not fade.

Pepper selection method: first of all, pepper, good pepper color is yellow dark gray or yellowish, light yellow pepper quality is stronger, taste more powder. Smell, good white pepper has a strong pungent flavor. Shoddy white pepper color is dark yellow or brownish yellow, size is not proportional, there is residue, more soot, and smell the pungent taste is also light. Second is the black pepper, good black pepper color dark brown, size proportionate, usually more rounded particles, color, smell, the aroma is more obvious, and contains some cedar aroma. Shoddy black pepper is not uniform in size, the granules are smaller and do not have a strong aroma. It is also not recommended to buy especially black, and special care should be taken to avoid encountering colored ones.