Australian Native Ingredients - A glossary of the different ingredients available. — Mountain Pepper

The beautiful Indigenous ingredients we use in our products and sell as pure herbs are sourced from pristine wilderness regions from the Top End, from the Kimberley to Arnhem Land and  from the vast Central Desert to the rainforest, alpine and temperate regions across the country. We are committed to the environmentally sustainable growth of the native food industry and to increasing and supporting Indigenous Australian participation in the agricultural sector and in the native food industry overall.The range of Indigenous foods we use is certainly not exhaustive. From a culinary and nutritional perspective we have just begun to delve...

Provenance and the Plant The native pepper trees or shrubs that we use for culinary purposes are from the Tasmannia  genus of the Winteraceae family. This family of plants is one of a group associated with the ancient Gondwana Supercontinent that Australia was once part of, and is now represented in various species that we call native peppers. The one that we use is Mountain Pepper or Tasmannia lanceolata. We are always blown away understanding how truly ancient our native foods are and how they have survived through the ages in pristine wilderness areas and are now grown commercially - it is amazing to...