In Haiti there exist various varieties of peppers to the forms and the varied colours: lengthened, narrow and small, or rounds and corded, they can be green, red or yellow and more or less dark according to their maturity. One calls crammed jac (in Creole, behind of Mrs Jacques) those which are rebounded and split. The small high shrubs as three apples are current in the gardens, which does not prevent an important commercial culture. Like salt, the pepper is a condiment essential to the gastronomy of the islands. Whole jet in a pot, chopped finely in certain dishes, mixed in the achards, it seasons all the mets. On the table, the housewife takes care to present a plate full with pieces of pepper that each one will be able to prick of the end of the fork to plug its plateful slightly of it. Far from killing savours, the pepper reveals the gasoline of the dishes. The whole is of knowing to proportion it wisely.

Hidden capacities
Apart from his gustatory virtues, one also recognizes healing virtues to him. The Amerindians used already the flowers as cataplasm on the wounds and the wounds, and the fruit like additive with the poisoned arrows. In popular medicine, one always employs it in friction against the pains rhumaismales and bronchitides. Out of cataplasm against the furoncles and infusion against the evils of throat.