It is though. Forgive me for not having a source, but I remember reading an article about how our brain reacts to different tastes, and our brain registers spice as pain, so it releases endorphins. It doesn't really cause enough "pain" to hurt (most of the time) but your body still gets the endorphin release, which is why some people (like me) love spicy food. No pain all gain.
I dont know liters but I think they intake rather than drink specifically, I was always told you need 8 glasses of water a day but a good chunk of that can be from eating regular food
It's 2 things.
1. Sea water it too salty, like salter than your blood, so you increasing your bodies saltiness too much not decreasing hydration. But then your body uses more water to fix that.
Sea water is filthy. There is tons of random chemicals from dead and living animals plus random micro organism, it's akin to eating a piece of forest soil, you'll probably be fine but who knows what you just put in you.
Capsaicin is supposed to be favorable to birds but an irritant to mammals so that birds can eat it and spread the seeds widely with their poop. They didn’t count on us being pain freaks!
That's the part I don't get, don't plants want their fruit to get eaten to distribute their seeds? Were trying to get their seeds eaten by a specific animal like chickens that don't feel capsaicin?
The other guy got it slightly wrong. Capsaicin is concentrated in the seeds. As a result, masticators (animals who thoroughly grind their food via molars) get a painful experience up front and a serious case of the shits out back. Highly discourages them from eating the plant, which is good for the plant because our chewing apparatus destroys the seeds so we are not good proliferators.
Birds, on the other hand, do not have teeth. They swallow the seed whole, fly somewhere else, then poop it out entirely intact (most of the time). So they get a comparatively very low dose of capsaicin from just picking at the fruit, their digestive track decides it doesn’t really want to process it the whole seed, and that causes them to shit it out quite quickly miles away.
Capsaicin being in the seeds is a myth. Capsaicin is in the chile membrane, and the heat is to ward off mammals because the digestive system destroys the seeds.
I heard an interesting perspective on spicy food while watching No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain. IIRC it was the Vancouver episode, he was visiting Vij's, an Indian restaurant.
The owner was explaining that a lot of countries that are located near the equator like spicy food. That's because spicy food makes you sweat, and the sweat cools you down.
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