The most overlooked items on the dinner table have to be the salt and pepper shakers. Besides adding tasty decoration to anyone’s kitchen or dining room table, the salt is used to enhance flavor—although used in moderation, and pepper adds flavor and heat to a dish. However, the spice of pepper is proving to be more and more useful as a health tool instead of just a way to enhance or mask bland flavors. With pepper getting a little more credit now that its healthy qualities are being touted, one company is marketing the good effects of piperine—major component in black pepper that induces enzymes in the body to help breakdown proteins—as an alternative to pepper.
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