When you eat something spicy and you drink a soft drink it burns more but water is the best remedy. Why so?

Question

Both are liquid

Answer 1

Andies mints or coco for real works fast

Answer 2

The compounds that cause a spicy sensation do so by interacting with nerves in your tongue and palate, not through your taste buds or nose like many other flavors do. The tingling from carbonation (and also the minty tingle from minty things) interacts with the same nerves, so one tends to heighten the other, that is if you already have a spicy sensation going on and then add carbonation it increases the spicy sensation.

The spicy compounds (such as capsaicin) are not very water soluble, therefore water doesn't remove them from the mouth fast enough for some people. They are fat soluble, so milk, yogurt or other things that have fat in them usually ease the pain fastest.

Answer 3

Water and milk don't work. Use sugar. My brother in law lives with a Mexican girl that makes some very spicy food, and she showed me the sugar remedy for overly spicy food. It really works! Much better than milk or water.

Answer 4

wrong. Drink warm water, sweetened, that is the best. Actually, water isn't helpful much at all, unless it is warm, then just a bit.
Cold is difinately not good.
I live in Thailand which has some of the hottest spicy food on the planet, and I love hot/spicy food and so have experience. Today, I ate Somtum (papaya salad) with 6 thai chilis. It was wonderful! I cried! I laughed! But my orange juice didn't help at all. What did help was eating plain rice. And having dessert later...:-)

Answer 5

When you eat spicy food you are actually chemically burning your taste buds with capsaicin. When you drink soda all you are doing is spreading the chemical around in your mouth similar to mixing water with oil. A food that is high in fat or oil like bread, milk or butter is best since capsaicin can mix freely with the fats and oils. Drinking alcohol also helps since the ethanol will act as a solvent and break up capsaicin.

Answer 6

The taste of spice is actually oil-based, so if you mix it with water or another liquid such as soft drinks, it doesn't work, remember, oil and water do not mix. Instead eat something which absorbs oil, like rice or bread or potatoes.

Answer 7

actually water isn't the best remedy... milk or crackers

the pain is from the capsacin in the oils from the food... water washes away excess food from your tongue so the oil can coat it more and more pain. pop is worse because the carbonation irritates your tongues which is already inflamed from the spices.

milk coats the the taste buds and help keep the oils off... crackers are the best because they absorb the oils

Answer 8

Heartburn is to lots acid on your abdomen and/or esophagus I actual have discovered purely chewing a stick of gum helps very almost every time. you have particular glands on your mouth that artwork basically once you chew and this actual "spit" has a extreme content fabric of a few style of base and it acts a purely like baking soda and vinegar without the fizz. So much less acid...much less heartburn. yet be careful I had a ulcer that began to bleed, I spent 2 weeks laying in a wellness center mattress, so in case you undertaking would not bypass away or occurs "constantly" please bypass see a doctor

Answer 9

Well really water ISN'T the BEST remedy Milk is or any dairy product such as yogurt. Take my advice!

Answer 10

I drink milk with spicy foods--water doesn't seem to help at all.

Answer 11

Actually water is not the best thing to soothe the mouth, milk is. It neutralizes the spice.