Nature: A creeper tree like betel leaf and needs to be plucked. It usually climbs trees. Each joint has roots. The fruit is small and round. It is green in the raw and black when ripe. Found in different parts of Assam.
Properties: Pepper has many antioxidant properties. Pepper contains vitamin ‘C’ and plenty of carotene. There are two types of hormones that women need after pre-delivery and postpartum. Those two hormones are estrogen and oxytocin and both these hormones are found in pepper. Eating pepper does not put you at risk of developing diabetes. It is also beneficial in insomnia. Jaluk can protect us from cancer and heart diseases.
Cuisine: The lyjabari made with pepper, the soil can be made from the pepper, the clay kanduri, the marlya shak (futuki forest), the banjaluk, the doron forest, the jilmil (bhatua) vegetables, the spinach, the mandhania, the leaves of mulashaka, the leaves of lascachi, the tender puli or leaves of the elephant khutara, the jaati khutra, the bor manimuni, the small manimuni, the small manimuni. This kind of mixed leafy vegetable anja provides a lot of vitamins, minerals and biochemicals to our body and keeps the body healthy. Pepper is eaten in jilmil vegetables. Apart from this, it is also used in the meat of the bank, in the bhaji of kaldil, in the fry of banana pashta. A little bad boy fish can be fried and mixed with pepper in it and eaten.