Piperine is an alkaloid extracted from the plant, Piper nigrum. Responsible for the pungency of black pepper, it is used in food flavorings as a spice, in fragrances, as an insecticide, and as an animal pest repellent.
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Piperine is an alkaloid extracted from the plant, Piper nigrum. Responsible for the pungency of black pepper, it is used in food flavorings as a spice, in fragrances, as an insecticide, and as an animal pest repellent.
Along with its isomer chavicine, piperine from black pepper and long pepper has pungency effects via activation of TRPV1.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).