When you eat a "hot" salsa and it "burns" your mouth, is the actual temperature in your mouth becoming hot from the salsa? If not, what causes the feeling of burning?
2007-11-11 12:04:19 · 10 answers · asked by Apkness 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
No, the temp is not rising. Even though you may be breaking a sweat.
Hot peppers contain a chemical called capzaicin, and it is what your taste buds regard as "hot."
It's interesting... most spicy food worldwide is eaten by people living very close to the equator. How do humans cool themselves/? By sweating. And what do chili peppers cause us to do? Sweat. How cool is that?!
2007-11-11 13:05:25 · answer #1 · answered by Sugar Pie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the temperature stays the same. It's a chemical called capsaicin that is burning your mouth. Unless you're eating boiling hot salsa, then the temperature will go up. ;-)
2007-11-11 12:16:25 · answer #2 · answered by Nata 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The temperature is not hot, the burning sensation is the spices irritating the cells in the mouth.
2007-11-11 12:14:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the garlic in salsa has alliin/allicin~~the active ingredient in garlic. It's not actually hot. Certain peppers are this way.
2007-11-11 12:17:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
spicy foods offer taste as hot leave a burn that disguies the flaver does not inhance flaver
2007-11-11 12:15:15 · answer #5 · answered by tony_da_bachelor 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
particular chilies are standard to develop your metabolism, i dont be responsive to in case you may classify them as a neg calorie food yet they velocity up the digestion of all food on your abdomen on the time of intake
2016-10-16 04:32:42 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The acidity of the food.
2007-11-11 12:13:54 · answer #7 · answered by Marc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, but the flavor is too much for your body to take so you become hot and swell up.
2007-11-11 12:13:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's all about the texture that the spicy material is made from
2007-11-12 08:29:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-11-11 12:13:38 · answer #10 · answered by bumblebee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋