Chavicine is a possibly pungent compound found in black pepper and other species of the genus Piper. It is one of the four geometric isomers of piperine.
Chavicine is a possibly pungent compound found in black pepper and other species of the genus Piper. It is one of the four geometric isomers of piperine.
In light, especially ultra-violet light, chavicine is formed from its isomer piperine. Its flavor has been reported as flavorless Chavicine will also re-isomerise back to piperine.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).