View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-science-of-spiciness-rose-eveleth When you take a bite of a hot pepper, your body reacts as if your mouth is on fire -- because that's essentially what you've told your brain! Rose Eveleth details the science and history behind spicy foods, giving insights into why some people continue to pay the painful price for a little spice. Lesson by Rose Eveleth, animation by Flaming Medusa Studios Inc.
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3:33 that one frame, right there made me laugh harder than I ever thought I could
2:47 .. dang, I will never be able to see the world map like I used to!
1:03 He's Dancing
Ah the good memories
The true pain of spicy food happens not where it enters the body, but where it exits 💀
1:40 Wow, i didn't know the shock type thing happened with some food like mustard is also comes as spicy category 🙂 Thanks for this extra information. ❤️
“the pain doesn’t get any better. you just get tougher.” damn. felt that.
I've been eating spicy chilli peppers for over 3 years now and I can say that I can just chew chilli pepper and like only feel a substantial amount of spiciness in it compared to what it used to before. Overall, if you overcome that spicyness, you'll actually taste the umami/sweet kinda like flavor that comes alongside it.
“The pain doesn’t get any better, you only get stronger” - story of my life
Bicolanos in Philippines at 38.6°c eating pepper cousins: *It isn't hot it's delicious!*
It's not so much that spice-lovers enjoy the pain, it's often that I can't feel the pain as much as someone else.
Its damn cool that TED answers all those questions that randomly pops up every time in our mind 😌
Me literally being killed by the *fire* ignited by a chilli on my tongue Also me after a few minutes : I wanna burn again !
I’m seven years too late but this video was a pleasure to watch.
Having worked in a tattoo shop, I can say it's fascinating the varying levels of pain tolerance people have. It never seems to be correlated to gender, race, toughness, etc., but rather attitude. I feel like this video sorta confirmed that theory but which spicy food instead.
This was hilarious and this taught me so much!
The animation is just so adorable!
Ted ed has been my favourite teacher of all time. Just pure un-biased information
0:15 I like her pronounce much cute
Chili: *is spicy as a defense mechanism Humans: ha jokes on you I'm into that sh!t