The benefits of pepper

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Welcome to my blog friends, pepper is a spicy fruit that grows on a tiny tree, it has colours like red, yellow,green . It's benefits are what I will like to discuss using the hints from the contest.

Do you eat pepper frequently? Do you include it in your meals?

My love for pepper needs to be studied because it gives me the appetite to enjoy my meals, there's no meal that I eat without putting pepper. If I'm eating anything that is cooked I must put pepper I can conclude that I eat pepper as frequent as possible and I include it in all my cooked meals.

✓ What benefits do you know of pepper?

• It helps blood circulation. We Africans, Nigerian to be precised we believe that pepper helps new born mum's to discharge their delivery blood well, therefore it's recommended for them to take it during the early days of delivery.

• It keeps the body warm. During rainy season, pepperish meals are advised because it makes the system warm .

• It helps in weight loss. Pepper has what it takes to suppress calories intake that leads to weight gain.

• It helps to suppress some aromas that stimulates irritation in meals.

• It helps in spicing up meals.

✓ Is it easy to find pepper in supermarkets in your country? What is its price on Steem?

Dried red pepper

Pepper is very easy to be seen in supermarket and in my country it's very popular, we have pepper in our local markets, even food stuff vendors along the streets sells pepper. And the price ranges from what you can see in the table below.

Pepper	Quality	Nigeria money	Steem price
Dried pepper	1cup	600	2.5
Fresh pepper	15seeds	500	2.1
Sachets dried pepper	1	100	less than 1steem

✓ Do you have any special way of storing pepper to preserve its properties?

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• Get your pepper wash and sundry , after it has properly dried , blend it and avoid water then store in a container.

• It can also be stored in a refrigerator, but it must not be washed then put in a sieve and store in your fridge.like this the moisture and the freshness will be maintained.

• Store in an air free basket where heat will not affect them.

✓ Share with us how you incorporate pepper into your meals.

Delicious meal prepared with fresh pepper

When cooking my stew what I do is to blend my pepper use it to stim my meat, then I go on and pour it into my meal until it's okay to my taste bud.

Sometimes I use pepper to garnish my sauce or eat Cooked eggs.