Funny science mysteries (part 5)

Do people die from eating too many hot peppers? So far, no cases have been reported to have died from eating too many peppers, although some masochists have definitely tried to test this limit.

The current champion of pickled peppers is the one who won the all-American trophy last year with the goal of accumulating 247 fruits in 8 minutes.

Anandita Dutta Tamuly
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No less than LeFevre and earned a spot in the Guinness Book of Records as Anandita Dutta Tamuly, an Indian woman with the achievement of a clean 60 chili cup Bhut Jolokia - the world's most spicy chilli - in just 2 minutes on television. nation.

Let's talk about weirdness, scientists have found that eating chili has health benefits. Last March, researchers at Cedars – Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles found that the chemicals that make chilli, capsaicin, can kill prostate cancer cells in humans implanted. mouse. They conjecture that this content is equivalent to a man weighing 90 kg eating 3-8 habanero peppers 3 times a week.

But is there a deadly threshold with chili? Researchers at Niigata Medical School in Japan have experimented on mice to find this out. After some " healthy " content contains only pure capsaicin, most mice die from lung damage.

However, don't worry, you'll have to eat hundreds of thousands of pickled peppers at a time to reach such a level, and as soon as you can't stand it, most people ask for the 12th fruit.

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