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chilliPod, or powder made from the pod, of a variety of capsicum (Capsicum frutescens), a small, hot, red pepper. It is widely used in cooking. The hot ingredient of chilli is capsaicin. It causes a burning sensation in the mouth by triggering nerve branches in the eyes, nose, tongue, and mouth. Capsaicin does not activate the taste buds and therefore has no flavour. It is claimed that people can become physically addicted to it. |
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They offered me the local traditional dish, which is a plate with chilli sauce, a little bit of cheese and lots of tortillas. But even before the disc became a thriller, Usher was an international pop idol who'd snared two Grammys, appeared in movies and on the cover of countless magazines, and endured a breakup with ex-girlfriend Chilli from the r&b group TLC that had the media foaming at the mouth. The molecular crystal structure of capsaicin, the hot component of chilli peppers, was solved directly from synchrotron powder diffraction data alone, using the same simulated annealing procedure outlined in the previous section [6]. |
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