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The effects on blood pressure are well known, but that it can cause spasm of arteries is interesting.
Many people eat lots of spicy food daily and I never heard of serious health issues. Especially a single chip might contain a concentrated amount of capsaicin, but it is unlikely to contain much more in volume then a hot plate of chili con carne or even just a hand full of raw jalapenos. So I assume it is some underlying condition and a shock reaction and not the capsaicin itself.
I would love to see more research into this.
It contains some of the spiciest peppers in existence, with a rating of well over a million Scoville. Jalapeños go up to a rating of ~8000 Scoville.
It's incredibly spicy.
Yeah, but there are hotter peppers and foods available and the jalapeño is an incredibly mild pepper, it's barely spicy and not a good comparison.
Challenge foods and sauces in general tend to also use pure capsaicin extract to really bring home the heat, but this tends to affect the flavor and make it bitter and unpleasant. Foods shouldn't be "challenging" you to eat them and then artificially raising the stakes. It's hard enough to get decently hot foods as it is, having to keep an eye out for companies "cheating" by using the pure extract from the peppers is annoying.
I too hate the extract sauces, they're just painful without the flavour. As far as I'm aware these crisps don't use it. The world's hottest ramen challenge I did was just reaper mash missed into the sauce.
I could have also picked a habanero which is admittedly a lot more spicy and it used to be the hottest pepper in the world, but it usually doesn't cause a big reaction either.
Anyway, that's missing the point. I was talking about the total amount of capsaicin which can't be really high in just one chip. It is just a tiny amount of concentrated capsaicin and I believe that people usually consume more with a regular spicy meal. Hence my believe that not the capsaicin itself is the problem.
Yeah, but they sell sauces that go well above those chillis scoville ratings made with extracts that people eat all the time without dying.