A user's guide to chillies

ANDY "The Hat" White has won the chilli-eating competition at the Fiery Foods festival in Brighton four times in a row. Each year he prepares for it by feasting on coconut rice and drinking pints of full-fat milk. This year dozens of festivals ...

Qutenza is a cutaneous patch (a patch that delivers a medicine to the skin). It contains the active substance capsaicin (8%). Qutenza is used to treat peripheral neuropathic pain (pain that is caused by damage to the nerves) in adults who do not ...

http://www.aboutbloodpressure.ca/do-chillies-lower-blood-pressure/ Curry could save your life, reports the Daily Star. It said that chilli-laden dishes such as vindaloo or phall might appear to cause the brave eater to tense up, but they make blood ...

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Screen printed carbon nanotube electrodes (SPEs) are explored as electroanalytical sensing platforms for the detection of capsaicin in both synthetic capsaicin solutions and capsaicin extracted from chillies and chilli sauces utilising both cyclic ...

Those were the days when you went to a Chinese restaurant and asked them not to fill the dish with green capsicum, Simla mirch. Now you have to say Please, no red, green or yellow peppers. I know they're pretty, they're crunchy and add lovely ...

Up the ante against cold and flu with this healthy eating planNobody plans to get ill. On the contrary, your efforts to avoid it sometimes seem borderline OCD: don't sneeze into your hands, always cook your chicken to exactly 170°C, hose down every ...

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