Black pepper is the fruit of the vine family in southern India and Sri Lanka. White pepper is also fruit, but treated differently. It is almost universally used, black pepper is one of the most popular spices in the world and play an important role in most curry recipes. Often the requirements of Ayurveda and other traditional health workers. Spicy peppers phytochemical basis of their most important and well documented, piperine. Read the rest of this entry