Rainbow Whole Peppercorns

Fresh cracked pepper goes in just about every dish. Add a little for a hint of flavor, add a lot for bolder pepper notes. Mount Hope Wholesale’s Rainbow Peppercorns are a visually stunning, colorful combination of black, white, pink and green peppercorns. Known as drupes, a single-seed fruit, peppercorns hang off a vine in long skinny bunches like tiny grapes. Their wrinkly skin comes in after the drying process. Peppercorns, ripen in stages from green to red. Of the four black peppercorns are the most popular and are also one of the oldest spices. They have existed in culinary cuisines since ancient times when they were used in trade. Scientists have even identified peppercorn in mummified corpses with other organic materials. Black peppercorns begin as the unripe green fruit which is cooked and then sun-dried to look like the black pepper you most often see on your tables beside the salt. To keep the green in the green peppercorns they are preserved in their unripe state by pickling