Humans have known to grow peppers from more than 6,000 years ago

According to Science magazine, peppers originated in South and Central America and have been grown for more than 6,000 years, even before the craft industry was born.

(Photo: abc.net.au ) An international team of researchers has studied the long history of chilli grown by analyzing starch fossils found on pieces of stone used to sting chilli seeds. These are the oldest traces discovered so far.

'It was previously thought that ancestors of highland civilizations such as the Incas and Aztecs were the first to grow peppers, but now we have evidence that the peppers originated from the nation. the tropical and low-lying regions of Latin America " , archaeologist Scott Raymond of Clagary University (Canada), one of the study authors explained.

Researchers claim chili originated in Bolivia, but chili cultivation has spread to other areas. They found traces of chilli starch in 7 areas; The oldest particles are estimated to be 6,000 years old, present in Ecuador, where the traces of the oldest village of the Americas are found. But they believe that chili cultivation has been around for a long time.

Adventurer Christoph Columbus brought the pepper from the New World and from then on the use of chili spread throughout the world.