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Black, green and white peppercorns are the same fruit

Only the harvest time and processing differ between them

All three come from Piper nigrum. Green peppercorns are picked unripe and preserved, black ones are picked unripe and dried so the skin blackens, and white ones are soaked so the outer skin is removed before drying. The different treatments leave different aromatics, which is why they are not interchangeable in a recipe.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Only the harvest time and processing differ between them. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a food fact?: Yes. It sits on the Food shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.