b'Hot to stop the heat?The 3 best methods for reducing spicy burning in the mouth and lips. A) Drink dairy milk. No milk? Try any dairy, like ice cream or yogurt. The compound casein in dairy products binds with capsaicin (the spicy molecule) and helps reduce the burn. B) Coat your mouth with olive oil. This may seem odd, but capsaicin is an oil-based compound that repels water. This means that water will only spread the burn around your mouth. Instead, try swishing a small amount of oil in your mouth and either spitting it out or swallowing it. C) Eat bread. This doesnt work as well as drinking milk, but it can help relieve some burn in the mouth and can also help reduce stomach discomfort (especially when consumed before eating spicy food). Tip: Avoid getting pepper juices on your lips. This can be more painful and more difficult to cure than heat on the tongue.The hottestChilli peppers are betterThe hotness in peppers is typicallyfor you than orangesmeasured in Scoville Heat Units (SHU). According to the Guiness Book ofMost people know that Records (2023), the hottest pepper at theoranges are high in vitamin moment is Pepper X with an averageC, and a great way to get of 2.69 Million Scoville Units and peaksover a cold. But perhaps over 3 million SHU. For comparison, thewe should be throwing hot jalapeowhich is more than spicychillies in our juice instead. enough for most peopleclocks in atWhere oranges have an 10,000 SHU at most, and the habanero,average amount of 53 mg which hits the tolerance limits of mostof vitamin C per 100 gr., people, is only 350,000. If Pepper Xthe same amount of chilli is too mild for you, no worries, there ispeppers can boast up to constant breeding underway to create140-240 mg of vitamin C. even hotter peppers. There are some contenders (but not yet officially verified by Guinness BoR) with over 3 million SHU. Pepper Spray Law-enforcement-grade pepper spray, values from 500,000 up to 5 million SHU but the actual strength of the spray depends on the dilution. It is an inflammatory agent that will immediately cause coughing, choking and nausea. It will also dilate the capillaries of the eyes causing temporary blindness. The mucous membranes will swell to the point of cutting off all but life support breathing, causing intense burning and an assailant to be temporarily incapacitated. NOVEMBER 2024|SEEDWORLD.COM/EUROPEISEED WORLD EUROPE I 25'