The lure of chili

Do not know what time does it start, Chinese people is more and more love spicy. Today, nearly half of the world’s peppers are produced by china; chili acreage has more than turnips and tomatoes in China, second only to cabbage, it becomes Chinese second largest vegetable.

When the pepper burning stimulate the taste buds; whether summers or winters, North or South, both men and women were falling in love with that eat profuse sweat, hooked feeling, "spicy" is unwittingly become the taste that most people can not live without it. It allows us to increased appetite, hearty, quietly took away the pressure of a busy day accumulated. In the end, what kind of charm does the chili have, whether you can eat spicy food truly?

Spicy charm is a kind of "pain", the researchers had been research peppers for up to 5 years, the first division of the Chinese territory of spicy food spiciness: "hot zone" in the upper reaches of the Yangtze, including Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, Shaanxi, southern, spicy Index 151-25; northern "mild area, including Beijing, Shandong, Shanxi, northern Shaanxi and Gansu most, Qinghai to Xinjiang, spicy index 26-15; southeast coast, south of Shandong, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, compared to avoid spicy "light zone" spicy Index 17-8. the most favorite to eat spicy food is Sichuan, the second is Hunan, the third is Hubei.

Why pepper make people more eat more addictive? Pepper charm comes from a " pain ". And the sweet, bitter, salty, sour, strictly speaking, " hot" is not a taste, but the body burning irritation. The stimulation sense brings pain, let the body to secrete large amounts of endorphins to resist, and the EP also can let a person produce the feeling of pleasure. Therefore, when the pain stimulus fading, the body's stress also releasing slowly.

Eat spicy not only make people feel happy, in fact, as pharmaceutical raw materials, pepper itself is rich in nutrition, has many health benefits. First of all, in the hot pepper, various vitamins and content is extremely rich. A small pepper include vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin K, carotene, folic acid adn all kinds of vitamin. Secondly, pepper also contains calcium and iron and other minerals and dietary fiber.

Peppers including stem pepper, fresh pepper, pickled pepper, capsaicin supplier recommend that it is better to eat fresh pepper, because it contains more nutrients. In addition, peppers had better cooked to eat. Because chili contains a large number of capsaicin, may have on oral and gastrointestinal mucosa irritation. After heating, the gastrointestinal stimulation will decrease.

Although eat spicy is fun, but eating too much also make people can’t stand it. Experts teach you solution hot method: eat more sweet and sour food. Sweet can cover and interference with spicy, acid and alkaline of capsaicin. Feel too hot, dipped in vinegar to drink a bowl of cold, sweet drinks, eat a cool fruit are very useful. If you are doing at home again, try to choose nourishing Yin, dry down, pours hot food to match, such as the duck, shrimp, crucian carp, bitter gourd, sponge gourd, cucumber, you can also cook cool mung bean porridge, lotus leaf porridge to relieve inflammation. The pepper, due to personal physical fitness is different, the bear level is different. Cold hands and feet, easily anaemic person can eat more. Have gastric ulcers, esophagitis, hemorrhoids, and hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency, often constipation, acne people should eat carefully.

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