Blog — Capsaicin

A good “Cup of Joe” usually hits the spot, and sometimes you might go back for multiple cups. But what if you could take something as ordinary as coffee, and make it extraordinary?

Getting in better shape, however, takes some willpower and some hard work. As any health expert will tell you, you need to cut down on your portions, eat healthier, and exercise more. But could hot sauce be the secret ingredient to dropping those extra pounds fast?

It’s no secret that many of us love spicy food. In fact, you might say we crave the extra spice so much we’re always looking for new ways to experience the hot pepper scale. But have you ever wondered why you’re craving so much spicy food?

For thousands of years, people in the world have used chili peppers to flavor their food in some way or another. While some peppers are mild, others are spicy hot. It wasn’t until a little over a century ago, that we had a way to rank and measure the hottest peppers in the world on a single scale.