White pepper starts off as green pepper, but the green skin is rubbed off. Your jeans get their start in cotton fields. Cotton comes from plants that grow in the southern parts of the United States. On each plant, creamy blossoms emerge about eight weeks after farmers plant the seeds. The blossom eventually falls off, leaving a tiny ovary on the cotton plant that ripens and enlarges into a pod called a cotton boll, which contains a fluffy white material.
People harvest the cotton fiber to a gin where machines separate the fiber from the seeds.
Then, the fiber is cleaned, dried, and packed into 500-pound bales. The bales are sold to fabric makers, who spin the fiber into rope-like strands. Machines draw out and twist each strand, making it tighter and thinner, until it is at the right thickness. Other machines clean and straighten the fibers, so the cotton can be twisted again into yarn for denim. After spinning, the cotton yarns are dyed and woven into fabric.