Piperine is the pungent alkaloid principle of black pepper — dry, warm and biting with a peppery-woody character. On a blotter it reads as a slightly dusty, resinous pepper with a mild numbing sharpness, less volatile and less bright than pepper essential oil but more tenacious.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1149.
White crystals.
Slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol, soluble only in certain oils.
Virtually odorless when pure.
No initial taste, but very soon after application to the oral mucous membranes a hot, burning mouthfeel occurs in the back of the mouth and near the throat.
It finds use in flavor compositions, not only as an ingredient in artificial Black Pepper, but also in various spice blends, and as an additive to the flavor composition used in 'Celery Soda'.
Produced from Piperonyl chloride and Piperidine.