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10/12/2011 - DEF LEPPARD’S PHIL COLLEN VS. THE HOTTEST CHILI PEPPER IN THE WORLD
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DEF LEPPARD’S PHIL COLLEN VS. THE HOTTEST CHILI PEPPER IN THE WORLD
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Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen bravely takes on the world’s hot chili pepper known as Bhut Jolokia or ‘The Ghost Pepper’ on film...
01/12/2011 - Frank's Hot Sauce
Discovering this in the nation's supermarkets was a very exciting thing. Don't get us wrong we like Tabasco too but the searing heat and sharpness of Frank's Hot Sauce made it the sauce that launched the Buffalo wing. Happily the punch and flavour goes with pretty much everything. Except muesli and ...
18/11/2011 - Contestants eat a dozen raw chillis in Birmingham's hottest food challenge
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TWELVE brave contestants proved Brum likes it hot when they took part in the city’s first chilli eating competition.
The 11 men and one woman pushed their taste buds to the limit by attempting to eat 12 raw chillies of increasing strength cheered on by a fired-up...
06/11/2011 - Hot Peppers vs Cancer: Tumor cell inhibition with hot pepper extracts
Project Summary – Author Dan Dou USA.
In recent years the field of cancer research has shifted toward natural solutions for treatment and prevention because they have fewer dangerous side effects to the human body. With this is mind the hypothesis of this experiment was that the level of &l...
06/11/2011 - Foods to Get You Fit and Beautiful
Chile Peppers
Eating even one meal that contains capsaicin—the compound that gives hot sauce and chile peppers their heat—not only reduces levels of hunger-causing ghrelin but also raises GLP-1 an appetite-suppressing hormone indicates research in the European Journal of Nutrition.Sci...
26/10/2011 - Hot Diggidy Dog Sauce Gets a Gold Star in the Great Taste Awards 2011
Hot Diggidy Dog Sauce continues it’s recognition as a fine food with a Gold Star award in the 2011 Great Taste Awards. Hot Diggidy Dog Original Sauce was judged against a host of other UK produced condiments in the Hot Sauce category. It was awarded 1 Gold Star for its taste.
The Great Taste...
24/10/2011 - Contestants eat a dozen raw chillis in Birmingham's hottest food challenge
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TWELVE brave contestants proved Brum likes it hot when they took part in the city’s first chilli eating competition.
The 11 men and one woman pushed their taste buds to the limit by attempting to eat 12 raw chillies of increasing strength cheered on by a fired-up...
13/10/2011 - It ain't half hot mum!
Destination The Rupali Newcastle to sample Curry Hell... The hottest curry in the world!
I piled my fork high. A thumb-sized chicken piece smothered in the thick scary scarlet sauce. It didn’t matter how hot it was going to be I had to pile it high. The Rupali’s proud proprietor Rukon...
11/10/2011 - Britain's curry queen
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Rochelle Peachey is so addicted to spicy food she has added hot sauce to each of her last 29565 meals and has now been crowned Britain’s curry queen.
The 45-year-old developed her taste for the exotic as a teenager visiting Brick Lane in east London and even adds spices to her breakfast ...
10/10/2011 - Chili peppers a natural anti-inflammatory
'Bhut jolokia' or 'ghost chili' peppers hold the official title of world's hottest. But a new variety the 'naga viper' claims to be even hotter.
Spice it up eat less: A recent study found that when people who don’t typically prefer spicy foods sprinkled just half a teaspoon of cayenne pe...
10/10/2011 - How to eat spicy foods?
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The burning sensation that can make you feel like your mouth is on fire and makes you break out in a sweat is caused by the chemical capsaicin in chilli peppers. As it enters your bloodstream it makes the body feel it is hotter than it acutally is and triggers physical reactions designed to cool ...
26/04/2011 - A sprinkling of red chilli peppers on your dinner 'keeps hunger pangs at bay'
Spicing up a daily diet with a sprinkling of chopped-up chilli peppers could help weight-watchers to curb their appetites.
Researchers from Purdue University in Indiana found that capsaicin which gives peppers their heat can reduce hunger and increase energy expenditure.
We found that consuming re...
30/03/2011 - New Sauces Available Exclusively At Chilli Bugs
Chilli Bugs Hot Sauces is proud to introduce a new range of award-winning sauces available for the first time in the UK exclusively from Chilli Bugs.
New from the Scoville Food Institute these multi award-winning sauces are unlike any other chilli sauces currently on the market. Based on the Period...
25/09/2010 - I Ate The World's Hottest Chilli And Lived To Tell The Tale!
There's none of this 'I'm going to bite the end off'. If you're going to do it you're going to eat a whole one." So insists Nick "Woody" Woods chilli obsessive and proud father of the infinity chilli probably the hottest chilli in the world.Woody is currently harvesting this happy...
23/09/2010 - Massala Restaurant To Host Tast Of Chilli Dinner
The Massala Restaurant in Cobham is collaborating with the publisher of the Good Curry Guide Pat Chapman to host a 'Taste of Chilli' dinner on 23rd September.
The 'Massala Inferno' features a dish called Lal Maans and that contains Infinity Chilli Sauce which comes from British producer Fire Fo...
05/08/2010 - Thousands Flock to Felbrigg Hall's Chilli Fiesta
The weather may have been cool and a bit wet but visitors to Felbrigg Hall yesterday were guaranteed a scorcher.The National Trust property's fourth annual Chilli Fiesta drew in more than 6000 people determined to test their taste buds to the limits.But as their eyes watered and cheeks reddened p...
05/08/2010 - Roulades, Bakes and Sweet Chilli Sausages Battle for British Turkey Gong
Stuffed turkey roulade crisp turkey and root vegetable bakes and sweet chilli flavour turkey sausages are among the new products shortlisted for a win in the British Turkey Awards 2010. The independent panel of judges will taste their way through eleven whole roast turkeys before choosing three ...
04/08/2010 - Pass The Chilli Sauce! Hot Foods May Lower Blood Pressure
Eating mouth-numbing foods such as fiery chilli peppers could help lower blood pressure a new study has suggested.Researchers found the active ingredient that gives the peppers their heat - a compound known as capsaicin - also relaxes the blood vessels.Hypertensive rats were fed a diet rich in caps...
04/08/2010 - Chilli Pepper Rockets Give Children Food For Thought
A group of Bosnian Roma children were given the chance to launch chilli pepper rockets with help from a Rolls-Royce aviation expert. Grant Gibson 23 visited Sinfin Community School to work on the three-week project with children from the school Sinfin Primary School and the Derby Bosnia-Herzego...
22/07/2010 - Cameroon Farmers Doubt Elephant Chilli Ball Idea
Farmers in Cameroon have expressed doubts over a UN suggestion to use pepper spray guns to stop stampeding elephants destroying crops. Frightened villagers often respond to attacks by killing the animals. The Food and Agriculture Organisation says plastic guns that fire ping-pong ...
16/07/2010 - Sales Of Hot Chilli Pepper Spice Up
style="margin: 0pt 0pt 15px"> BRITISH food lovers are spicier than ever and have sparked a 600 per cent rise in chilli pepper sales. Red-hot demand from foodies has seen chilli farmers increase output. We were once lovers of bland food but cooks are hunting for even hotter thri...
14/07/2010 - Chilli Peppers Arrive At Vault
WENK'S Yellow Hots Pico de Gallos and the unpredictably hot San Juan 'Tsiles' chili peppers have arrived safely at a 'doomsday' vault in the Arctic. Democratic Senator Ben Cardin says he and other members of Congress delivered seeds from the pepper varieties on Sunday to a Norwegian...
14/07/2010 - Will the Red Hot Chili Pill REALLY Burn Away Your Flab?
When Toni Withers 37 saw an advert for the diet pill Capsiplex it seemed like the answer to her prayers. A former professional gymnast she had stopped competing at the age of 17 and now ten years later was still battling with the after-effects of years of a near-starvation diet. 'We had a Russia...
11/07/2010 - Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated in Latin America and by Latin Americans living in the United States and Canada. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. The ...
11/07/2010 - Chilli Price
The price of chilli which has more than doubled in recent weeks has caused a major dip in sales of the produce at local markets. Currently chilli is sold at RM20 to RM25 per kilo said vegetable vendor Rumani Kasdan 61 who has been a trader for three decades. She said the price of all varieties &...
16/06/2010 - Chilli Thrip Closes Kew Gardens
Minute tropical beast the Chilli Thrip is forcing closure of the giant palm house at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.The invasion of chilli thrip which can transmit a host of plant viruses forced Kew to close the building every Tuesday afternoon until the beast is blitzed. "There is currently no end...
07/06/2010 - Chilli Attack On Police
Three undertrials today escaped from a court compound in Chandernagore with the help of three of their bike-borne friends who threw chilli powder into the eyes of the police. As the constables cried out in pain unde...
26/05/2010 - Couple's Chilli Farm Proves To Be Controversial Success
High on the flanks of southern Dartmoor a young couple have been living secret lives while developing a hot and spicy business – but now their secret is out and they find themselves amid a storm that could have ramifications across the British countryside. Phil and Kay Palmer have been g...
17/05/2010 - Chilli Spill Sparks 999 Alert in Birmingham City Centre
FIREFIGHTERS and supermarket bosses were left with a red-hot problem – over the cause of a suspected chemical alert which left part of Birmingham city centre sealed off. Residents and workers were evacuated when the Tesco Metro store in New Street was shut down after six workers complained...
14/05/2010 - Chilli Farmers Turn Heat on
class="body"> The owners of a thriving Dartmoor-based chilli farm claim that a local planning authority is hampering the growth of an enterprise that "ticks all the boxes" environmentally. Phil and Kay Palmer have been specialising in growing red-hot peppers in two polytunnels at ...
06/05/2010 - How To Grow Chillies
Easier to grow than tomatoes chilli peppers will add hot colour to your garden and hot flavour to your cooking.Sow seeds into a pot of compost covering them with 5mm of sifted compost. Lightly firm down with the bottom of another pot then gently water the seeds.Place a sheet of newspaper over the po...
04/05/2010 - An Encounter With The World's Hottest Chilli
In a covered market in the city of Imphal the air pungent with fresh and fermented produce a young man holds up his hands to reveal what looks like a cluster of dried berry-red flowers. They immediately smell herbal complex and very powerful. "These are the dry ones. The fresh ones only c...
29/04/2010 - Chilli Chocolate Meatballs Kick Start Waitrose World Cup Bid
Waitrose hopes to cash in on World Cup fever this week with the launch of a new range of meatballs – including a chilli and chocolate flavour. The supermarket has unveiled five different flavours inspired by nations competing in South Africa this June. As well as the Mexican-themed chilli a...
28/04/2010 - Chilli Capsaicin Key to Killing Pain
Studying chilli peppers is helping scientists create a new type of painkiller which could stop pain at its source.A team at the University of Texas says a substance similar to capsaicin which makes chilli peppers hot is found in the human body at sites of pain. And blocking the production of thi...
28/04/2010 - Chilli Peppers Help Burn Away The Fat
Researchers have found that the heat generated by peppers can actually increase your consumption of calories and "oxidise" layers of fat. And for those that don't like the "burn" they have discovered that an equivalent of the main ingredient "capsaicin" occ...
23/04/2010 - Are You Brave Enough To Try A Chocolate Chilli Drink?
CADBURY World is turning up the heat by challenging visitors to taste its new chocolate chilli drink as part of a special Aztec themed weekend. The weekend which takes place on April 24 and 25 offers visitors the chance take part in a host of Aztec themed activities and talks including me...
23/04/2010 - Yorkshire Partnership Creates Chilli Jam Pork Pie
NEWS of a partnering between two Yorkshire food companies is hot stuff. Knaresborough-based Robinsons Pork Butchers has partnered with The Chilli Jam Man to create The Chilli Jam Pork Pie containing the world’s three hottest chillies. Mick Robinson owner of Robinsons Pork Butchers me...
21/04/2010 - Cooking with Chillies
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