🤔Black Pepper Vs. Red Pepper – How Do They Compare? 🤔
🤔 Black pepper and red pepper are both fundamental spices in food cultures all over the world. Black pepper comes from the Kerala region in Southern India while red pepper comes from Central America. While both of these spices play similar roles — they provide heat — they do so differently. You need to consider those differences if you are trying to decide which of them to use. Let’s compare the two. How does black pepper differ from red pepper?
👉The most obvious difference is indicated by the names: black pepper is black and red pepper is red. The appearances of the two differ dramatically because they come from two very different plants. Black pepper is made from the dried drupes of the Piper nigrum plant.
👉 And red pepper is made from dried capsicum fruit, making it a chili pepper. In most cases, red pepper (crushed red pepper flakes or cayenne powder) is made with cayenne pepper. Cayenne pepper is a Capsicum annuum variety.

👉Black pepper and red pepper differ in terms of flavor as well. The first big flavor difference has to do with heat — these spices provide their spicy kick to foods in different ways and to differing extents.

✍️ Black pepper provides a mild heat at best. The source of its heat is a compound called piperine. The cayenne pepper used to make red pepper is much hotter, It’s classified as a medium-hot chili pepper with a Scoville rating of between 30,000 and 50,000 Scoville heat units. Cayenne (along with all chili peppers) gets its heat from the compound capsaicin.