Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Grains of Capsicum Dating Back 6,000 Years In South America, researchers have identified starch grains of Capsicum on milling stones and cooking pots recovered from house floors in southwestern Ecuador dating them to around 6,000 years ago. These microfossil [..]
Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Capsaicin Oil But I only want to love you... Capsaicin, the component in chile peppers that produces the heat sensation, is created by the pepper plant to stop animals from eating its fruit. It does not affect birds, which spread the plant's seeds. But this defense m [..]
Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Capsaicin Heat What Makes Hot Sauce Hot? The chemical that gives peppers their distinctive spicy flavor is called capsaicin. Sources believe that nature intended capsaicin to deter many animals from eating peppers, but the chemical has had the opposite effect&hell [..]
Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Calabrian Chile Peppers A Chile Pepper with an Italian flare... Mamma mia!! Calabrian chiles are a category of chile peppers grown in the Italian region of Calabria, located at the toe of the boot. Enclosed by three separate mountain ranges and situated between the [..]
Hot Sauce Fun Fact - CaJohns Frostbite Hot Sauce Clearly it's Hot Sauce... Clearly There are many clear hot sauces on the market, one of the more popular and multi-use options is CaJohns Frostbite. So, Frostbite clear hot sauce can be used wherever you do not want it detected. Ever h [..]
Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Bumblefoot's Hot Sauce Rocker Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal on his line of Hot Sauces in his words: It was 1981, at a family get-together in Brooklyn. I was 12 years old; my older cousin Steve dared me $5 to eat a hot cherry pepper - that was my earliest memory of 'the rush' y [..]
Chile Pepper Fun Facts - Bolivian Rainbow Pepper The colors of the rainbow... Just like Skittles!! The Bolivian Rainbow Pepper is a beautiful rainbow variety of chili peppers that will a pop of color to any garden or dish. The small naturally bushy plant produces hundreds of small, te [..]
Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Hot Sauce Collectors Dream Rare and hard to find collectable hot sauces can get pretty expensive... Take Blair's Caldera Reserve, 6oz.: Standing Almost a Foot Tall and Topped with Italian Platinum Wax resin and a 24k Gold Dipped Skull for example. Over a year in the ma [..]
Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Natural Black Seeds There are only a few Chile Peppers that actually have black seeds naturally. One of them is a Manzano and another is the Rocoto Pepper. The Manzano pepper is one of the exceptions. Its apple-like shape hints at fruity, and it doesn’t disapp [..]
Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Birds Help Disperse Chile Seeds New research illustrates how birds help to produce rare wild chili peppers... A new study involving Iowa State University researchers explores how a mutualistic, or mutually beneficial, relationship between birds and chili peppers in [..]
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