Posts Tagged ‘ chile peppers ’

Hot Sauce Is Good For You!

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Well, heck we already knew that.....but here is a great reminder of why we need to add more hot sauce to our daily diet! A study published in the British Journal of Nutrition has discovered that capsaicin (the stuff in peppers that makes them hot), when added to breakfast foods or appetizers at lunch, causes people to ...

Does Hot Sauce Go Bad?

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

One question I get asked alot is shelf life of hot sauces.  Chile peppers have been used throughout time to preserve food, and therefore, between the chile peppers and vinegar that is the "liquid" in today's hot sauces should hold it's freshness for a long time.   Many hot sauce collectors will not keep their sauces in ...

Headache Relief from Capsaicin…

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

A recent study found that 75 percent of headache patients felt relief when they rubbed capsaicin (the component that makes chile peppers hot) on their nose.

New Use For Chile Peppers

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Costs squeeze New Mexico's peppers Chile breeders at New Mexico State University have developed a gem of a new chile variety that produces the reddest pigment commercially available. “NuMex Garnet,” a paprika chile for natural food coloring, was unveiled today at the 20th Annual 2002 Chile Conference in Las Cruces. ...