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When you take a bite of a hot pepper, your body reacts as if your mouth is on fire — because that’s essentially what you’ve told your brain! Rose Eveleth details the science and history behind spicy foods, giving insights into why some people continue to pay the painful price for a little spice.
Lesson by Rose Eveleth, animation by Flaming Medusa Studios Inc.
Date: March 10, 2014
When I was in Philippines I have this spicy snacks I consider spicy and cant finish it all that easily. I bring that snacks to indonesia and didn’t eat it for months. When I finally ate it I realized it wasn’t spicy at all. Did my spicy tolerance increase? Indonesia has a lot of spicy food to the point normal food already have sa slight spicy to it
I though peppers are spicy because it’s a type of toxin to protect them from parasites
Me eating spicy food while watching this:🌶️😣
The reason civilizations in warmer climates ate so much spicy food was because it was hot where they lived, and spicy foods make you sweat, which cools you down.
And 四川省too.
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I prefer to enjoy and appreciate the taste of the actual food, instead of making my palate burn unable to taste anything. When you add spice, you may as well eat the common grass, cuz spice totally kills any taste the food might have, all you feel is just burning in the mouth. I figured that out eating vietnamese Pho bo soup, with and without the spice.
Peper x
Is it bad to consume too much spicy food?
I love spicy foods. I am eating spicy chicken bites from LongHorn Steakhouse right now. Love it!