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People’s contact with red hot pepper begins with the cultivation in Mexico around 7,000 years ago. Including Turkey, 1/3 of the world’s population consume red pepper and for centuries especially for medical purposes, red pepper used to eliminate pain. Dried, frozen or freshly consumed red pepper has so many good health effects. Capsaicin, a substance derived from red hot pepper, has many different effects in the body. Capsaicin, substance that makes pepper hot, has an anti-tumor effect in many cell types. Studies have shown that capsaicin causes the death of cancer cells by reducing the production of molecules such as NFKB and BCL-2 in cancer cells.
Benefits of Red Pepper:
• Capsaicin in hot red pepper triggers death of cancer cells and does not harm healthy cells.
• Capsaicin has been found to destroy prostate cancer cells.
• Red hot pepper has a relaxing effect against joint inflammation and pain. In one study, capsaicin was injected to patients suffering from severe joint pain and after injection the pain of the patients was largely reduced.
• A pharmaceutical company started to develop a medicine called ALGRX4975 by using capsaicin. It helps to regulate stomach acid and facilitate digestive.
• It has cholesterol lowering effect. In the experiments, capsaicin showed positive effects on blood lipid levels.
• It has a positive effect on blood circulation.
• Increases body resistance to microbes.
• Appetizing.
• Red pepper is also rich in vitamin C. Vitamin C content is higher than lemon. Red peppers have twice as much vitamin C as green peppers.
How to Hide?
Separate the good ones of red peppers and peel them by taking the seeds of. Wash and invert to allow the water to drain. After thoroughly dried, put as many as you’ll use for one time in a bag. Take the as air out of the bag as possible and tie it and put it into freezer. When you want to use it you should prepare other ingredients first. Because as soon as the peppers come out of the freezer, they should be cooked without dissolving or the taste of the pepper deteriorates. You can also chop your peppers and freeze them.