Is ground pepper good/bad for you?
Is ground pepper good/bad for you?
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Emeye

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9,780 posts

239 months

Monday 21st July 2008
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I tend to put it on most things, just a couple of twists mind, but is it good or bad for you like too much salt?

Does ground pepper up your metabolism?

Are there different benefits/downsides of different types of pepper?

Sorry if this is a strange question! biggrin

Cheers. smile

Stamp

3,609 posts

252 months

Monday 21st July 2008
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I can't answer, sorry, but I too love ground pepper and would like to know the answer

neilsfishing

3,502 posts

214 months

Monday 21st July 2008
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Too much of any thing (food) is bad for you

Noger

7,117 posts

265 months

Monday 21st July 2008
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Supposed to be pretty good for you, helps absorption of vitamins etc. Interestingly there are a number of salady type leaves that inhibit vitamin and mineral digestion as a way of deterring predators. So us "salad dodgers" (I like to think of myself as a conscientious objector) can say it is for our own good smile


OllieBirmingham

5,688 posts

208 months

Thursday 24th July 2008
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I've been wondering this for ages, my two brothers and I are black pepper freaks loading it onto everything and anything. Works very well with strawberries too strangely!!

bazking69

8,620 posts

206 months

Friday 25th July 2008
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I love ground black pepper. Great stufff. I tend to use it to season instead of salt which I lay off now (well, you don't hear anyone banging on about going easy on your pepper intake do you...)

Scraggles

7,619 posts

240 months

Saturday 26th July 2008
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tend to use a custom mix of black green, red white pepper all ground up, occasionally grains of paradise and long pepper

variety is good for u

Zad

12,858 posts

252 months

Saturday 26th July 2008
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I understand it passes through your system very slowly (I was told 48 hours) but largely intact. So presumably even if it were nasty, your body wouldn't suffer.

Ordinary Bloke

4,559 posts

214 months

Saturday 26th July 2008
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I think it could be on the extremely short list of things that taste good and are not bad for you, along with shell-on-peas, cherry tomatoes, oranges and ice-cream. I did get it right about the ice-cream, didn't I?

Zad

12,858 posts

252 months

Saturday 26th July 2008
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Ordinary Bloke said:
I think it could be on the extremely short list of things that taste good and are not bad for you, along with shell-on-peas, cherry tomatoes, oranges and ice-cream. I did get it right about the ice-cream, didn't I?
I hope its right about cherry tomatoes, I have 6 rather prodigious plants in the greenhouse. Sweet, tangy, and tasting of tomatoes. Which is quite unusual with tomatoes nowadays.


Emeye

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9,780 posts

239 months

Saturday 26th July 2008
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Zad said:
Ordinary Bloke said:
I think it could be on the extremely short list of things that taste good and are not bad for you, along with shell-on-peas, cherry tomatoes, oranges and ice-cream. I did get it right about the ice-cream, didn't I?
I hope its right about cherry tomatoes, I have 6 rather prodigious plants in the greenhouse. Sweet, tangy, and tasting of tomatoes. Which is quite unusual with tomatoes nowadays.
Raw tomatoes make me heave! No idea why, I love them cooked!confused

Ordinary Bloke

4,559 posts

214 months

Saturday 26th July 2008
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Someone has to Wiki it:

Pepper as a medicine

'There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' Alice said to herself, as well as she could for sneezing. — Alice in Wonderland (1865). Chapter VI: Pig and Pepper. Note the cook's pepper mill.Like all eastern spices, pepper was historically both a seasoning and a medicine. Long pepper, being stronger, was often the preferred medication, but both were used.

Black peppercorns figure in remedies in Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani medicine in India. The 5th century Syriac Book of Medicines prescribes pepper (or perhaps long pepper) for such illnesses as constipation, diarrhea, earache, gangrene, heart disease, hernia, hoarseness, indigestion, insect bites, insomnia, joint pain, liver problems, lung disease, oral abscesses, sunburn, tooth decay, and toothaches.[23] Various sources from the 5th century onward also recommend pepper to treat eye problems, often by applying salves or poultices made with pepper directly to the eye. There is no current medical evidence that any of these treatments has any benefit; pepper applied directly to the eye would be quite uncomfortable and possibly damaging.[24]

OK, back to the grind... wink