Capsaicin

food_science

New hot pepper varieties emerge as breeders chase higher capsaicin concentrations and novel heat profiles, reshaping what cooks and breeders consider the hottest pepper. Pepper...

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health-safety

Can you die from spiciness? In everyday eating, death from spicy food alone is exceptionally rare in healthy adults, but extremely high doses of capsaicin—the compound that cr...

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