Tag: Hot peppers

  • Why are Hot Peppers Hot?

    Why are Hot Peppers Hot?

    Hot peppers, also known as “chili” or more appropriately chile peppers, are popular and used in cuisines around the world. The heat of hot peppers comes from capsaicin, from a group of chemicals called capsaicinoids. Capsaicin is found in the highest concentrations in glands on the surface of the pepper’s placenta, which is the part…