Black and White Pepper are both obtained from the small dried berry of the Piper nigrum.
For Black Pepper, the berries are picked while still green, allowed to ferment and are then sun-dried until they shrivel and turn a brownish-black color.
They have a hot, piney taste.
McCormick Culinary Whole Black Pepper is carefully sourced from mature pepper berries that have been harvested and sun-dried for seven to ten days.
Our superior quality whole pepper is ideal for pepper mills and grinders to deliver fresh-cracked pepper flavor and aroma.

Benefits

Black Pepper is especially useful as a flavor enhancer when reducing salt in the diet.
Our experience and technology produces spices with superior volatile oil content.
We enforce the highest quality control standards, some exceeding government standards.