Spice export glossary
MG1 (Malabar Garbled 1)
Malabar Garbled Grade 1 black pepper: cleaned, sorted pepper at roughly 500–550 g/l bulk density — the workhorse export grade.
MG1 (Malabar Garbled 1) is a specification buyers put on the contract when sourcing Black Pepper from India. If you are buying to this spec and want it verified on your lot, we quote against it and ship with the test report.
Spices this applies to
See also
Sources
- Spices Board of India — Export statistics· Tier 1, retrieved 2026-07-16