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The heat from a hot pepper is concentrated in the interior veins near the seeds, not in the seeds like it is commonly believed.
Is the pepper too hot to handle? Don't drink water! Capsaicin is an oil, and it will not mix with water but instead will spread the heat around to more parts of your mouth. Instead try drinking milk or any other dairy products.Type your paragraph here.
Capsaicin has been associated with many cures that include lowering blood pressure, reducing cholesterol, lowering your risk for strokes and heart attacks, speeding up metabolism, treating colds and fevers, controlling pain and even preventing cancer! If you haven't already, start eating your daily dosage of hot peppers. There's no telling in what way they might help you.
Pregnant women who want to speed up their due dates will eat hot peppers! Eating hot peppers during pregnancy can also reduce the time it takes for the baby to actually come out.
Hot peppers can help you lose weight by increasing your metabolism!
As a rule of thumb, size matters! For peppers, the smaller the pepper, the hotter it will be. All the world's most potent peppers are under three inches long.
Hot peppers are fruits not vegetables contrary to popular belief.
One fresh medium sized green chile pod has as much Vitamin C as six oranges.
1 teaspoon of dried red chile powder has the daily requirements of Vitamin A.
Hot chile peppers burn calories by triggering a thermodynamic burn in the body, which speeds up the metabolism.
Teas & lozenges are made with chile peppers for the treatment of a sore throat.
Capsaicinoids (the chemical that makes chile peppers hot) is used in muscle patches for sore and aching muscles.
The Indians of the American tropics cultivated the chile pepper for centuries for both its culinary and medicinal uses.
The color extracted from VERY red chile pepper pods is called oleoresin. It is used in everything from lipsticks to processed meats.
Wild chiles are spread by birds because birds do not have the receptors in their mouths to feel the heat.
Chile peppers are relatives of tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants. They all belong to the nightshade family.
Chili peppers are good for you. They are high in vitamins, a good source of beta carotene, calcium, and potassium, and may help reduce cholesterol.
Many hot and Spicy foods have medicinal and antimicrobial properties.
Chili peppers can help you lose weight by boosting your metabolism and curbing your cravings for fatty and sugary foods.
When ingested, the capsaicin in peppers causes chemical processes in the body that affect thermogenesis , the process that is responsible for increasing both body heat and metabolism according to the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Although most people think eating spicy foods like chili peppers can cause stomach ulcers, the opposite is true. Ingesting spicy food can help heal ulcers by stimulating the creation of mucosa, the protective lining of the stomach, and killing the bacteria responsible for the ulcer.
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