Yves Dominic A.

Garcia
Joshua O. Ventura
MKA 13 November 9, 2018
TOPIC: FOOD - SPICY FOODS
3 Facts about Spicy
 Weight Loss  Spicy isn’t a taste  Health benefits

For one, the extra kick What do salty, bitter, sour Despite their popular
of hot sauce or a and sweet all have in flavor, some people
chopped jalapeno can common? They’re all tastes. keep their distance
make even the Spicy is not a taste. Certain from spicy foods
blandest diet food compounds in spicy because they find the
more palatable, food activate sensory hot sensation
causing you to be neurons called polymodal unbearable. In other
more likely to stick nociceptors. These cases, people believe
with your weight loss receptors are activated by they need to exclude
plan. In addition, they extreme heat. Your mouth spices from their diet
may jack up your feels a burning sensation completely to stay
metabolism. Studies because you brain believes it healthy.
show that the main is in contact with a
compound in chilies, dangerous heat source, and
called capsaicin, has he central nervous system
a thermogenic effect reacts to whatever the
and may cause the sensory system tells it is
body to burn bonus going on.
calories for 20
minutes post chow-
down.
Detailed Information
 Is it true that spicy  Why isn't 'spicy' considered  Can spicy food help us
foods will help you one of the five basic tastes? to live longer?
lose weight by
speeding up your To a physiologist, taste is defined Eating spicy food
metabolism? by a set of receptors on the tongue several times a week
innervated mainly by the could help you live
Studies have found glossopharyngeal and facial longer, according to a
that eating spicy nerves. This gives us the ability to 2015 study published
foods provides a detect salty, sour, sweet, bitter, and in the British Journal of
temporary minor umami (savory or amino acid) Medicine.
increase to the tastes. In ordinary speech, we Researchers
metabolic rate. speak of other tastes or flavors examined the
However, before you mediated by different receptors association of regular
go running for the including pain (chili peppers), consumption of spicy
chili, you should know temperature (menthol), touch (food foods and mortality in
that this increase is texture or astringency), and odors. 487,000 men and
brief, and it is barely The last one is especially women in China. They
noticeable. Spicy interesting because it isn't even in found that people who
foods are not ate spicy food six or
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Joshua O. Ventura
MKA 13 November 9, 2018
metabolized at any the mouth but has huge effects on seven times a week
significantly faster what people consider to be taste. had a 14 percent lower
rate than the rest of risk of dying from all
the food that you eat. causes.

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