BUGS PUT HEAT IN CHILI PEPPERS
August 11, 2008
August 11, 2008
SEATTLE, Aug. 11 -- The University of Washington Health Sciences campus issued the following news release:
If you're a fan of haba�ero salsa or like to order Thai food spiced to five stars, you owe a lot to bugs, both the crawling kind and ones you can see only with a microscope. New research shows they are the ones responsible for the heat in chili peppers.
The spiciness is a defense mechanism that some peppers develop to suppress a microbial fungus that inv . . .
If you're a fan of haba�ero salsa or like to order Thai food spiced to five stars, you owe a lot to bugs, both the crawling kind and ones you can see only with a microscope. New research shows they are the ones responsible for the heat in chili peppers.
The spiciness is a defense mechanism that some peppers develop to suppress a microbial fungus that inv . . .