The rise of niche Latin cuisine and Asian fare -- including Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Malaysian and Indian -- highlights a new love affair with scorching flavors.
The push to grow ever hotter peppers continues to make front-page news, but even the most fringe fire-eaters are being left behind as the capsaicin concentration crosses the barriers of human ability to tolerate them
Ajinomoto Co. Ltd., and a group led by professor Masayuki Saito of Tenshi College in Sapporo, Japan, have found a single ingestion of capsinoids, a sweet chili pepper extract, appears to increase energy expenditure, especially “in people with a high level of activity in brown adipose tissue.