Black Pepper
(Piper nigrum)
🌱 Black Pepper is considered the ‘King of Spices’, and is widely used to add flavour to dishes, and why we have chosen to include it in our Kombucha Tonics.
🌱 Black Pepper also enhances the taste and bioavailability of other ingredients such as with turmeric, as well as, for its food preservation, and medicinal properties.
🌱 The major bioactive compound in black pepper is piperine, which adds to other compounds to confer antimicrobial, antioxidant, anticancer, antidiabetic, hypolipidemic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anticonvulsant and neuroprotective properties.
🌱Black pepper have been traditionally used to treat menstrual disorders, fever, ear nose and throat conditions such a cough, sinusitis, throat infection, and earache, as well as gastrointestinal disorders and skin diseases.