{"id":6398,"date":"2025-04-13T10:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T10:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=6398"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:49:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:49:59","slug":"white-pepper","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/product\/white-pepper\/","title":{"rendered":"White Pepper"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scientific name: <\/strong>Piper guineense<br \/>\n<strong>Common names:<\/strong> White pepper, Guinea cubebs<br \/>\n<strong>Local names:<\/strong> Soro wusa, Sesaa, (Ewe)-Atsinkali<br \/>\n<strong>Family name:<\/strong> Piperaceae<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> A climber up to 12m high on tress,\u00a0climbing by means of adventitious rootlets etc.<br \/>\n<strong>Habitat:<\/strong> It occurs in closed forests on trees in forest<br \/>\nclearings.<br \/>\n<strong>Parts used:<\/strong> seeds, leaf, twig.<br \/>\n<strong>Chemical constituents:<\/strong> Volatile oil; alkaloids: piperine,\u00a0wisanine dihydrowisanine, dihydropiperine and related\u00a0alkaloids; resin, lignans-dihydrocubebin, sesamin,\u00a0aschantin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses:<\/strong> for the treatment of coughs, bronchitis and\u00a0rheumatism; the powdered drug is insect repellant and\u00a0insecticidal; fruit as spice. Antiviral used in\u00a0confectionery.<br \/>\n<strong>NB:<\/strong> There are two varieties. The one collected from the\u00a0wild is Piper guineense while the cultivated type is\u00a0Piper nigrum which is accepted mostly in the\u00a0international market as spice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[65],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6398","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-spices","first","instock","shipping-taxable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6398"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}