Chili Pepper News — Capsaicin

You may love popping off to the local sports bar to indulge in the hottest wings you can find. The latest spicy offerings from fast food joints might have forced you to make a detour on the way home from work. And it’s totally natural to become a little ecstatic when you buy a new bottle of hot sauce.

When’s the last time you really took a look at the hot sauce shelves at the grocery store? Or any fast food (or fast-casual) menu? Whether you’ve just done it, or you’re making a mental note to check next time you head out for a snack or grocery shopping, you’re bound to notice something: Hot sauces are a big deal.

There are plenty of foods that double as brilliant cleaning agents. Lemon juice is one of the dual-purpose foods. Vinegar is another. (Mix them together and you have the cleaner used to shine many a stainless steel diner in the last century.) Baking soda is another one of those miracle workers.

You’d have to be living on another planet for Banting speak to escape your notice. It’s everything in the diet world these days. And, it’s likely to be helping a lot of people to achieve their weight loss goals. But, dieting changes every decade or so.