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The Health Benefits of Black Pepper

• Black peppercorns are rich source of anti-oxidant vitamins like vitamin-C and vitamin-A. They also rich in flavonoid polyphenolic anti-oxidants like carotenes, cryptoxanthin, zea-xanthin and lycopene. These compounds help body remove harmful free radicals and help protect from cancers & diseases.
• Peppercorns has great amount of minerals such as potassium, calcium, zinc, manganese, iron, and magnesium. Potassium is an essential factor of cell and body fluids that helps controlling heart rate & blood pressure. Manganese is applied by the body as a co-factor for the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase. Iron is important for cellular respiration and blood cell production.
• Peppercorns are composed of some health benefiting important oils such as piperine, an amine alkaloid, which makes strong spicy pungent character to the pepper. It also has numerous monoterpenes hydrocarbons like sabinene, pinene, terpenene, limonene, mercene that gives aromatic attribute to the pepper.
• Black peppers contain amazing list of plant derived chemical compounds that are identified to have disease preventing and health promoting properties. Peppers have been in use since ancient times for its anti-inflammatory, carminative, anti-flatulent properties.
• They are also excellent source of numerous vital B-complex groups of vitamins such as Pyridoxine, riboflavin, thiamin & niacin.