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Cultural layer

Origin

Şanlıurfa in southeastern Turkey; isot, the deep-red pepper of the region, darker and hotter than ordinary dried pepper flakes, which turns black in the sun and is kept from direct light to hold its colour

Routes

Grown across southeastern Turkey, where most red peppers are made into isot, sold in the bazaars and herb shops of Şanlıurfa and eaten in other provinces; known as the Şanlıurfa pepper and protected as a geographical indication

Context

Isot is not simply dried: the traditional method keeps the pepper dark on purpose, and food chemists find that it preserves the browning that gives isot its character, raises its heat as processing ends, and leaves it with several times the aromatic compounds of industrial isot or ordinary flakes. The industrial version, dried by machine, loses colour quality and much of that aroma. This means that the name belongs to a method as much as to a pepper.

Behind this layer

Sebahat Oztekin and Funda Karbancioglu-Guler, Simultaneous Detection of Ochratoxin A and Aflatoxins in Industrial and Traditional Red and isot Pepper Flakes (ACS Omega, 2022)

Mustafa Ardic, Yakup Karakaya, Mustafa Atasever and Hisamettin Durmaz, Determination of aflatoxin B1 levels in deep-red ground pepper (isot) using immunoaffinity column combined with ELISA (Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2008)

Aziz Korkmaz, Ali Adnan Hayaloglu and Ahmet Ferit Atasoy, Evaluation of the volatile compounds of fresh ripened Capsicum annuum and its spice pepper (dried red pepper flakes and isot) (LWT, 2017)

Aziz Korkmaz, Ahmet Ferit Atasoy and Ali Adnan Hayaloglu, The effects of production methods on the color characteristics, capsaicinoid content and antioxidant capacity of pepper spices (Food Chemistry, 2021)

Route

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