How Is Black Pepper Beneficial For Health?

Hello Steemians...
I trust you are glad to have me back here, after i passed through a little illness that weaken me down ,although I'm recovering more better than before now. After gaining some much strength, i decided to visit market where i had the opportunity to gain more about pepper to write this down.
Here i had the opportunity to touch and help some of the women there out.

Pepper as dictionary stated is a fruit of the capsicum: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties. It has numerous benefits properties that can improve health in many ways such as cancer and diabetes prevention, improves digestive health and enhance brain health.

Health Benefits Of Pepper.

• It Improves digestive health
• It Relieves peptic ulcer
• It Prevents Cancer
• It lowers blood pressure
• It promotes weight loss
• It relieves cold and cough
• It Fights infections
• It has antioxidants benefits
• It improves oral health
• It Enhances brain health
• It helps in treatment of diabetes

Skin Benefits Of Pepper

The pepper cleanses the skin and helps treat acne and cures skin pigment, which means the potent antioxidants in pepper offer excellent anti-aging benefits to human skin.
Some of the skin benefits goes thus;

• It fights wrinkles.
• It can be use to exfoliate the skin.
• It cures the skin that lose its pigment.

Hair Benefits Of Pepper

Pepper can be combine with honey, it helps to strengthen the hair roots and can even help prevent baldness, because of the antioxidant properties it has that help solve serious hair issues like dandruff and hair fall.

How To Store Black Pepper?

Black pepper can be found in crushed and whole varieties. Whole peppercorns are better as they are mostly unadulterated. While purchasing whole peppercorns, always make sure that they are small, heavy, and free of blemishes.

Storage

To store black pepper, keep them in a glass jar that is well-sealed and airtight and store the container in a cool and dry place. Ground pepper can be stored for about three months while whole black peppercorns can be stored for an indefinite amount of time. Freezing pepper is also a great storage method, although the taste may change a little and become stronger.

The pepper is placed into different basket before being sold.

Using Black Pepper In Cooking.

Increase the quantity; This can help enhance the taste of your dish and would be beneficial to your health too. First, add a regular amount of salt and pepper – and then go on a little more with the pepper.
Since you are adding a little more amount of black pepper to your dish, you might trigger a coughing fit if the black pepper is finely ground. Hence, go for the coarse variety.
You can also use peppercorns as a coating for your food. This will make your dish crunchier.

However, eye redness is the only side effect of black pepper, if black pepper get into the eye, it can cause redness and burning.

Black Pepper is fine to take during pregnancy and breastfeeding but higher doses can cause complications. Higher doses can leads to miscarriage during pregnancy and during breastfeeding, it can affect the development of the child. So stay safe and limit consumption to normal doses during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

In Conclusion
Black Pepper is damn good, it spice up your diet and makes your food more delicious, as simple as that.

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The pictures in this post was originally taken by me by mobile phone, Samsung S5 at a local food market near my home.

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