Chili Pepper News

Chili peppers contain all sorts of vitamins and antioxidants alongside the fiery compound, capsaicin. The fight against free radicals is all the rage at the moment, but it’s really the heat-delivering capsaicin that works wonders inside your body every time you enjoy chili peppers or hot sauces with your meals.

If you planted your chili peppers early enough, you should have them in the ground by now. In fact, you may see the fruits of your labor already. Newbies to chili growing will have just a few plants and it’s possible they’ll get through all their peppers before they go bad. But, if you have a large crop of chili plants, you’ll need to figure out how you’ll make the most of your chili peppers.

Even if you’re keeping to a Paleo diet, you’re not eating the same things your ancestors did. No one is. That’s because what could have been available in a certain area and what was available to most people were two very different things. If you think about just how novel some crops were in different parts of the world, you’d shiver in your shoes – maybe even literally as you might choose to go without food for a while.

Why stop with a drop or two? Why not cover your food in hot sauce? Okay, we’ll make a few exceptions for that; we don’t recommend the following groups slather their food with hot sauce: Children Gastro-intestinally challenged people Also, we’d like to make the following qualification for anyone that routinely adds a few drops of Mad Dog to their meals; that’s likely to be hot enough!