Lisa on chilis
From enfascination
Believed that chiles orginate in the americas. from there to spain and from there asia. This is all wrong!
originally called Chilli, by the Nahuatl
16million SCU is the hottest
300,000 is the hottest in our hood. Serrano 8,000
linked to cancer cell death in rats, increases efficiency of insulin, linked wiehgt loss and used to alleviate pain (experimentally)
capsaicin operates on pain receptors and releases endogenous morphines (ondorphins)