When you take a bite of spicy salsa or Szechuan stir-fry, the heat you sense comes from capsaicin, the chemical found in all chili peppers that gives them a fiery flavor. People around the world have found ways to use a variety of peppers in foods, adding levels of spiciness that range from subtle to [...]
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The Scoville scale is a measure of how hot spicy food is. Strictly speaking, when we are talking about spice it’s not literally heat, it’s “piquance.” The heat of a chili pepper comes from something called capsaicin, and the scale measures how much of it is in the food. The scale was created by Wilbur [...]
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