Can eating Chili be addictive?
Eating spicy food is an addiction, just like some people like to ride roller coasters and watch horror movies, but this addiction is not taste but pain. Eating spicy food is often such a painful and happy stimulus.
The acridity of pepper is a kind of acupuncture pain. Capsaicin in pepper is an alkaloid, which stimulates the human body to produce vanillin, thus raising the temperature of nerve cells and feeling electric shock. Then stimulate the pain medium, stimulate the brain to produce endogenous morphine-endorphin, thus producing pleasure. In a sense, people who like spicy food are addicts, and they like the burning sensation of taste buds.
What can be quickly relieved when eating spicy food?
After eating spicy food, you will often have tears, runny nose, swollen lips and sometimes feel scalp pins and needles. At this time, our first reaction may be to find a cup of ice to hydrolyze spicy food. In fact, ice water is not a good way to relieve spicy.
Water can only alleviate the stimulation of spicy taste on the nerve of the tip of the tongue, but can't neutralize capsaicin. Capsaicin is insoluble in water and can't be washed off, which will make capsaicin spread to the receptor more widely and aggravate the burning sensation.
What can you drink to relieve spicy food quickly and effectively? Milk is a good choice. Pure milk contains a lot of casein, which is a good emulsifier, which can repair the epithelial mucosal cells of digestive tract burned by spicy food and relieve the stimulation of sensory nerves.
Eating spicy food not only makes people feel happy, in fact, pepper itself is rich in nutrition and has many health functions. A small pepper contains vitamins A, B, C, E, K, carotene, folic acid and so on. Secondly, pepper also contains minerals such as calcium and iron and dietary fiber.
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Eating Chili is not addictive, but if you like the spicy feeling, you can eat it with confidence, but be careful not to eat too much or it will cause indigestion!