Recently, in Chengdu, Sichuan, a company punished seven employees for eating "Death Spicy Strips" for substandard performance, and two of them were sent to hospital. Liu Xiaoxue was asked to resign a month later. She said she still has symptoms such as vomiting.
Although we say that the capsaicin in chili peppers can stimulate the taste buds, make you sweat, burn, tingling, and speed up your heartbeat and breathing, and then stimulate the brain to respond to this pain, release pain-relieving substances endorphins and Dopamine makes people feel pleasant.
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However, everyone’s ability to eat spicy food is different. Some people eat spicy food because of the TRPV1 (capsaicin receptor) in the body. Will produce more pain, so you can't eat spicy food by nature.
Some people have poor gastrointestinal function. For example, the girl who was punished to eat Spicy Spicy Strips suffers from chronic gastritis, and then forced to eat spicy Spicy will only aggravate the damage to the stomach and intestines, causing frequent stomach pain and vomiting. .
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Therefore, eating spicy food should be a personal choice, not a trick or even punishment.
Can you really eat spicy food?
In most cases, before we invite friends to eat together, we will ask this question:
——Can you eat spicy food?
——Can eat
——How spicy can I eat?
——Spicy abnormal
——How abnormal? Ok~
In our impression, the degree of spiciness seems to be the range of choices made by the merchants. The so-called mild spicy, medium spicy, and abnormal spicy depends on whether the store is from Chongqing, Sichuan, or Hunan, otherwise the degree of spiciness The grade may only be the difference between 0 peppers and all peppers.
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In fact, the scientific community does have a set of standards to measure the degree of spiciness. In 1912, American chemist Wilbur Scoville (Wilbur Scoville) formulated an index to measure the content of capsaicin, namely Scoville Index (English: Scoville Scale).
He uses his surname "Scoville" as the unit name, called "Scoville Heat Unit" (Scoville Heat Unit), abbreviated as SHU.
(A chili stall in Houston, Texas, marked with the Scoville indicator/Source: Wikipedia)
Scoville designed a set called "Scoville Organoleptic Test" (Scoville Organoleptic Test) experimental method to measure capsaicin content. The method is to dissolve one unit of capsaicin in the test substance in sugar water, and then give it to several people to taste, then gradually increase the amount of sugar water until the spiciness cannot be tasted. At this time, the total amount of sugar water is the total amount of the test substance. Scoville Hotness Unit (SHU).
For example, sweet peppers are not spicy when eaten raw, so the SHU is 0; the SHU of allspice is between 100 and 500, which means that one unit of allspice requires 100 to 500 times the amount of syrup. with.
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But this method is too subjectively affected, so later generations developed a method called "High Performance Liquid Chromatography". Measure. However, because the Scoville index has been used for a long time, the measured value of high performance liquid chromatography is still often converted into SHU to express the capsaicin content.
For example, you think Chaotian pepper is already very spicy, but in fact its SHU is only more than 30,000. It is known as the hottest Chinese hot pepper Dehong Shabu Shabu, its SHU is more than 400,000, while Mexico Devil pepper was recognized by the Guinness World Records as the hottest pepper on earth in 1994, and its SHU is about 570,000.
(Chaotian Pepper/Picture Source: 123RF)
By February 2007, Indian Broken Soul Pepper replaced Mexican Devil Pepper as the hottest pepper on the planet. Its spiciness was measured as 1.04 million SHU.
(Indian Broken Soul Pepper/Source: Wikipedia)
In March 2011, this record was bred again by the newly cultivated pepper variety Trinidad Scorpion Brawny T Pepper Replaced by 1.46 million SHU. At present, the hottest chili in the world is dragon breath chili (sounds very domineering), and its SHU is 2.48 million.
Therefore, perverted and spicy peppers are everywhere. Do you dare to say that you can eat spicy?
Moderate spicy food is good for health?
In daily life, pepper seems to be a "murderer" who does all things evil:
Get acne and get angry? Spicy!
Is your throat uncomfortable? Spicy!
Stomach distension and stomach pain? Spicy!
In fact, endocrine, external pollution, insufficient cleansing, excessive oil secretion, excessive horny layer hyperplasia, etc. can cause acne. Even if it is caused by diet, there is currently no scientific research that proves that eating spicy food can cause acne.
And sore throat is a mild infection in the throat itself, but capsaicin can inhibit the secretion of gastric acid, so it can only be said that pepper is an accomplice of inflammation and gastrointestinal diseases, not the culprit.
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As early as 2015, Chinese scholars were analyzing the prospective study of chronic diseases in China (China Kadoorie Biobank) According to the data, it is found that often eat spicy food is related to the total mortality rate and the decrease of mortality rate caused by some reason. The
study found that in the entire group, compared with participants who ate spicy food for less than 1 day a week, the adjusted mortality risk ratio for participants who ate spicy food for 1-2 days a week was 0.90. It is 0.86 for 3 to 5 days a week, and 0.86 for 6 to 7 days a week. Compared with those who ate spicy food for less than one day a week, participants who took 6 to 7 days a week had a 14% lower overall mortality risk.
Since then, American scholars have come to similar conclusions in the analysis of a large cohort study. The data used in this study comes from a cohort study conducted by the Italian Mediterranean Institute of Neuroscience (IRCCS Neuromed) from 2005 to 2010.
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The researchers collected the pepper eating situation of the participants in the form of a questionnaire, and divided the frequency of eating pepper into “no”. There are four groups: "eat", "no more than twice a week", "2-4 times a week", and "more than 4 times a week".
The follow-up of this study was as of the end of 2015, and the average follow-up time reached 8.2 years. More than 1,200 participants died. Among the various diseases that led to the death of participants, only the risk of death from cancer and the frequency of eating peppers It doesn't matter much. The results of the
study show: Compared with not eating hot peppers, eating hot peppers more than four times a week is related to a 23% reduction in the risk of all-cause death of participants and a 33% reduction in the risk of death from cardiovascular diseases.
So, one apple pepper a day keeps the doctor away?
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Of course, it cannot be so arbitrary. If you have inflammation, poor gastrointestinal function, hemorrhoids or anal fissure, Chun Yujun advises you to cherish life and stay away from pepper.
In addition, although you can exercise if you can eat spicy food, do not rush to challenge particularly spicy food. Once the pepper irritates the eyes, it can cause tearing, congestion, conjunctivitis and a strong burning sensation.
The extremely spicy food that is eaten can also irritate the respiratory tract, causing choking, sneezing, and breathingIncreased suction duct secretions, bronchoconstriction, mucosal edema and even laryngospasm cause apnea.
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So for spicy food, you can do what you can, don’t force yourself or others, otherwise you won’t have to go to the emergency room. may.
Edit: Dr. Chun Yu
Reference:
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[2]Scoville Scale/Scoville Heat Units Explanation at Tabasco Website
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