Black PepperUpdated 3 months ago
Category: Chocolate Inclusion
Sourced from: Black Pepper Plant
Country of Origin: India and Sri Lanka
Certified to: USDA NOP or equivalent
Black pepper is the dried berry of a flowering vine called Piper nigrum, which fruits in clusters like grapes. To make black pepper, farmers harvest the still-green unripe peppercorns and dry them. The drying process causes the thin fruit layer to darken and wither, resulting in the characteristic dark, puckered peppercorns you load into your pepper grinder.