A Review on Detection of Black Pepper Adulteration

Abstract: Food fraud costs a lot of money and erodes consumer and merchant confidence. One of the most expensive spices in the world, black pepper is prone to adulteration for commercial gain. Adulteration is frequently caused by economic fraud, negligence, a lack of basic sanitation, or intentional tampering with food. Pepper, once worth its weight in gold, today makes up around 35% of the global spice trade. Because they are readily available, inexpensive, and morphologically like black pepper, papaya seeds are frequently employed as an adulterant in black pepper. Black peppercorns and papaya seeds almost appear identical to the unaided eye, but we can tell them apart using picture processing.

Keywords: Food Adulteration, Black Pepper, Image Processing, Accuracy