Pippali Extract (Long Pepper)

Pippali is the dried, not-quite-ripe fruit spike of Piper longum L., the Indian long pepper, and one of the three pungents of the classical trikatu group alongside black pepper and ginger. Thovek supplies it as a dried extract of the cleaned fruit spike, extracted in water or aqueous ethanol, concentrated and dried, and standardised on piperine by HPLC at 1%, 2%, 3% or 5%. A 10:1 native concentrate is offered where the whole-fruit profile matters more than a marker figure. The finished powder is fine and free-flowing, brown to dark brown, aromatic on the nose and biting on the tongue. It is not interchangeable with black pepper extract, and buyers should not treat the two as one line item. Piperine is reported at roughly 1–2% of long pepper against 5–10% of commercial black and white pepper, so a pippali extract is a moderate-strength, full-spectrum material that carries piperlongumine (piplartine), piperlonguminine, methyl piperine, sesamin and the fruit's volatile oil alongside the piperine itself. That is precisely why it is specified: formulations that are Ayurvedic in character — churna and trikatu compositions, kadha and herbal tea mixes, classical tablet compressions — want the whole fruit expressed, not a single crystallised alkaloid. Published pharmacokinetic work on piperine describes effects on intestinal and hepatic metabolising enzymes and on efflux transport; how that is expressed on a finished pack is a decision for the brand and its market regulator, and Thovek makes no finished-product claim for the raw material. Every lot is manufactured in India from fruit of documented origin, dried without chlorinated solvents and released against HPLC assay, ICP-MS heavy metals, pesticide residues, aflatoxins and full microbiology. The material is vegan and vegetarian with no milk, egg, soy, fish, crustacean, gluten, peanut, tree nut or sesame input at any stage, and no animal-derived processing aid; where flowability requires a carrier it is non-GMO maize maltodextrin, which is gluten-free, and carrier-free lots are available. Organic (NPOP / NOP / EU) production ships with a transaction certificate. Standard commercial pack is 25 kg, with pilot and stability quantities available for qualification work.