This jar of hot soybean paste listed ingredients: pickled soybead, chili, sugar, salt.
When I eat it with food, my whole lips burn. I eat red chile pepper & wasabi, they are spicy but won't make my lips burn.
I don't have soy allergy. Is it because the soybeads are pickled? what are used to pickle food?
2007-10-29 14:23:36 · 3 answers · asked by doglover 5 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
I added it to plain cold (ccoked) tofu & seaweed. So the dish is not hot in temperture.
2007-10-29 14:44:34 · update #1
Some peppers are hotter than others.
Wasabi is a different kind of hot; not quite the same as a hot pepper.
If something is pickled it generally contains vinegar.
It probably the pepper (chili).
2007-10-29 15:28:50 · answer #1 · answered by majnun99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were allergic to hot soy bean paste, you would have more problems than just your lips burning (ie: facial swelling, trouble breathing, etc). Salt is a major component in pickling, so it could be it. Either that, or it's the way you eat the paste that makes your lips burn.
2007-10-29 14:30:20 · answer #2 · answered by Snowfire 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lips burning is definitely the chiles. Different chiles have different effects.
2007-10-29 14:42:29 · answer #3 · answered by Love #me#, Hate #me# 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋