Carolina reaper pepper side effects
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I unknowingly ate a heaping tablespoon of 3.5 million scoville sauce with no food on a stomach full of nothing but coffee (see the pepper spray comment, above). That said, hot peppers can cause real pain and distress even if they don't actually cause burns or ulcers. You might want to try their Smoky sauce from the Hot Spots line - an outstanding chipotle sauce with smoked habaneros that's very hot but not too hot. I've never had a bad sauce from CaJohns and their heat ratings are pretty consistent. Unfortunately, too many of those sauces try make sales with the equation: "crap flavor + pepper spray + cute/obscene label = profit". Thankfully, a whole niche industry and subculture has prepared an ever-escalating series of tasty hot sauces for you. The once-fiery Tabasco will become tasty pepper flavored vinegar. Your reptile brain will catch on, and you will build up a tolerance to capsaicin. Your mammal brain is smart enough to realize that no actual damage is occurring and that adrenalin and endorphins feel pretty good, all things considered. Your reptile brain will react defensively to this heat which is not really heat, dumping adrenalin and endorphins into your system.
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The burning sensation you feel is caused by capsaicin triggering the same neurons that sense heat. You won't die (well, you will eventually, but you will have lived more fully because you didn't limit yourself to bland foods), you won't get ulcers (although spicy food can irritate ulcers you already have), and you won't get cancer (if anything, spicy food will encourage your body to expel food more quickly, removing cancer causing agents more efficiently -).Ĭapsaicin is not an acid. Welcome to the wonderful, flavorful world of spicy foods.