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Promotion of Export Horticulture: Development of IPM options to improve quality and increase quantity of hot pepper (Scotch ...
Cream containing cayenne is used to relieve joint pain. It's also used to relieve muscle spasms and pain from shingles, phantom pain after amputation and pain from nerve damage caused by complications from diabetes (neuropathy). Capsaicin, the active ingredient in cayenne, is thought to work by
Hot Pepper (Capsicum frutescens L.) or siling labuyo, is a perennial plant with small, tapering fruits, often 2-3, at a node. The fruits of most varieties are red, some are yellow, purple or black. The fruist are very pungent. The flowers are greenish white or yellowish white.
The eye-watering moment when chili peppers first spiced up the palates of early Americans has long been a subject of speculation for New World archaeologists and culinary historians alike.
Peppers are high in vitamin C and range from sweet bells (left, top) to pungent jalapeno chiles (left, bottom above). The spiciness is due to the chemical capsaicin. The hottest chiles are habaneros (right, bottom above) and related scotch bonnets from the Caribbean basin.
"If you've got seven different kinds of peppers, if you're using them fresh and you're using them dried, you've got some interesting food," says archaeobotanist Linda Perry of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
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