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I am Jack's flaming taste buds.

Lol! I really loved this video. Interesting and entertaining. Greg is an awesome science presenter.

There are a few more core taste sensations beside those five. Yes, heat from chilis. But also the type of heat from horseradish or wasabi. Very different from chili-heat, and very unique. And, another one is the sensation of numbing/tingling the tongue with szechuan pepper beads. You could also reason the effect of miracle berries could be added to the list. Or how about the feeling of sizzling softdrinks?

If anyone's a fan of Hot Ones, you know there's an even hotter pepper now: Pepper X. Not yet rated on the Scoville scale

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Hi as a person who's job revolves around peppers. and i grow the that Maruga, along with West Indian Red and Jamaican Scotch Bonnet. I strongly recommend drinking something worm to cool you mouth. It may sound counter intuitive but a sip of tea, work far more quickly than Milk. trust me on this, i am a pepper farmer

Omg this is very usefull for student at school for science or just impressing ur friends!

hot peppers do actually cause tissue damage, in a similar way that guzzling vinegar does. to say the least it is a bad idea to try to live off of excessively hot(spicy) food because eventually your esophagus will collapse the same way it would if you were puking several times a day. that is because of tissue damage. capsaicin does taste/act hotter, aka feels more like a fire, than the actual tissue damage done, and the ammount done is trivial in the short term, but it is quite possible to chemically burn your epidermis (lets say the skin on your arm) just using a natural chili extract. swipe a strong capsaicin extract on your skin and in about 5 minutes you will be reaching for the soap. P.S. apparently youtube doesn't know how to spell capsaicin, i even went and googled the word then pasted it back in with the same spelling and still got a red underline. i can only laugh at this. although maybe it is chrome that can't, i don't remember if youtube does the edit lines or the browser i am using.

Instead of drinking milk after eating something hot, eat something really sugary. Sugar acts much better than milk with dealing with heat

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Jack’s a brave lad!

...beads of sweat! I can tell you're not a fan of these peppers. Are some people more sensitive this less able to tolerate spice not by nurture but by nature?

You confuse spicy with painful, There is A-tasters and B-tasters, how do You know the difference ?

A more interesting question might be: why don't we say that foods are "spicy" ...however pungent they were with non-capsaicin spices?

Greg As chilies and peppers use capsaicin to activate the pain receptors for heat; with out cause lung actual tissue damage, does this mean if you have some pain killers before consuming the Chilies, does this mean you will not feel the pain or burning sensation therefore meaning you could eat chilies all day..until the pain killer runs out?

My mouth got watery when he bit the pepper.

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