Capsaicinoids are the pharmacologically active components of hot peppers that have been part of the diet for centuries. They constitute a family of natural products isolated from the dried fruit ...

Using data from seven different chili populations spread over 1600 km2 in eastern Bolivia, the authors attempted to see if fungal infection caused resulted in chilies that produce capsaicinoids.

Super-hot chile pepper fruits have rumpled walls, which creates more surface area where additional capsaicinoids are embedded, which produces an extremely hot chile. This structural difference is ...

Capsaicinoids are a group of compounds that produce the strong spicy sensation or pungency that comes with consuming chili peppers. The combined amount of capsaicin and dihydrocapsaicin in a ...

Capsaicinoids, a group of chemical compounds found in peppers, have useful properties beyond making food taste delicious.

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Chemistry Chemists discover 'anti-spice' that could make chilli peppers less hot. An analysis of compounds in chilli peppers has revealed chemicals that seem to negate their heat-giving capsaicinoids.

Although around 23 different capsaicinoids have been found in chilli peppers, the most potent of these is capsaicin – although it has a similar level of pungency as a similar molecule called ...

If capsaicinoids are so important, why are some of Bolivia’s chillies weak? The answer is simple – Fusarium, and the bugs that spread it, ...

For the study, researchers gave 40 men and women a 2-milligram capsule of capsaicinoids—the component that gives chili peppers their heat—or a placebo every day.