Pepper or black pepper is the dried unripe fruit grown in the plant called piper nigrum. It's pungent smell, peppery/hot taste and health friendly properties make pepper a favorite spice all over the world and it is commonly used in all cuisines.
Black pepper is a good source of manganese, a mineral that can help with bone health, wound healing, and metabolism. In fact, one teaspoon of black pepper offers 13 percent of your daily recommended intake (DRI) of manganese and 3 percent of your DRI of vitamin K.
Black pepper is native to the Malabar Coast of India and is one of the earliest spices known. Widely used as a spice around the world, pepper also has a limited usage in medicine as a carminative (to relieve flatulence) and as a stimulant of gastric secretions.