Black pepper- Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine within the Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, a peppercorn, typically dried and used as a spice and seasoning. Since antiquity, ground, dried, and cooked peppercorns have been used for flavor and as standard medicine. Black pepper is the world's most traded spice and is one of the foremost common spices added to cuisines worldwide.