Kampot Long Pepper, "Piper retrofactum", is a flowering vine of the pepper family, native to Java, Indonesia. The first reference to long pepper appears in Indian manuals of Ayurvedic medicine, where its medicinal and dietary benefits are described in detail. Very popular in Roman and Greek times, it was one of the first spices to reach Europe, as early as the 6th or 5th century BC. Hippocrates mentions it as a medicine rather than a spice.
Kampot peppers come from a farm that has been awarded the EcoCERT organic label, but does not currently benefit from the organic label on the European market.