Native Peruvian capsicum · Exported worldwide
Peru grows flavor in every altitude.
From coastal deserts to Andean valleys and the Amazon, Amazon Andes is a wholesale spice supplier bringing native Peruvian peppers to kitchens, food manufacturers and spice importers around the world.
Uchu · pepper in Quechua
Peruvian chiles
Amazon Andes Export SAC created the “Uchu” project to produce, market and export Peruvian peppers and spices in response to growing demand for unique, high-quality foods and ingredients.
Uchu means pepper in Quechua. The project develops products from native peppers cultivated from the high Andes to the coastal deserts and the Peruvian Amazon.
The worldwide recognition of Peruvian cuisine creates an opportunity to share this diversity through fresh, dried, powdered and processed presentations.
Our storyOur peppers
A living palette of heat and aroma
Each pepper carries its own color, fragrance and culinary purpose. Choose a specimen to see its origin and uses.
Yellow Pepper
Aji amarillo brings a warm, fruity heat and the golden-orange color found at the heart of Peruvian cooking.
Aji Panca
Wholesale dried chili peppers prized for their dark color, rounded flavor and mild heat — supplied in bulk for marinades, stews and spice blends.
Paprika
Bulk paprika from Peru with stable red color and a broad range from sweet to gently piquant — supplied wholesale for food manufacturing and kitchens worldwide.
Rocoto
Peru’s emblematic hot pepper: fleshy, aromatic and used fresh, filled, in paste or dried.
Other Peruvian Peppers
Limo, charapita, cerezo and mochero show the extraordinary shapes, aromas and colors of Peru’s native pepper diversity.
From field to finished ingredient
Quality you can trace through six stages.
Selection and classification
Cleaning and disinfection
Drying
Milling
Thermal sterilization
Packaging
Origin story
8,000 years of capsicum history
“A fruit that traveled from the highlands to the world—and remained a sacred, nutritional and culinary thread through Peruvian life.”
Archaeological remains place peppers in ancient Peruvian life thousands of years before our era—on the table, in art and in ceremony.
Read the storyNative ingredients, ready for the world.
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