Most people don’t get into super hot peppers for the health benefits. But there’s definitely enough information there to strongly suggest that spicy food, is in fact, good for you. But like many holistic remedies, the evidence behind the cancer-fighting properties of capsaicin isn’t solid enough to use it for actual medical treatment.
Basically, studies show that hot peppers have the power to make cancer cells self-destruct. In very simple terms, capsaicin causes certain cancer cells to undergo apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Multiple studies have shown that capsaicin - the active compound inside chile peppers that produces a burning sensation when it comes into contact with tissue - does have anticancer properties. Originally, it was: How can I do something about cancer and heart disease? But really, it was: How could I keep on partying?” And one of the things they all had in common was capsicums at just about every meal and in their water. “One of the things they all had in common is they don’t have heart disease or cancer. “I was studying indigenous populations around the equator,” he says. The 55-year-old from West Bloomfield Township, Michigan first got into chiles when he went away to the University of Michigan for school, mostly as a way to stay healthy as raucous partying became a way of life. For comparison, a jalapeño’s range tops out at a measly 8,000 SHU, and the previous record holder - the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T - has 1.46 million SHUs at its very hottest.Ĭurrie has been into hot peppers for decades.
With an average of 1,641,000 Scoville heat units (SHU), it also holds the Guinness World Record for Hottest Chili Pepper in the world. Currie - who’s rightfully earned the nickname Smokin’ Ed - is most famous for creating the Carolina Reaper, which is currently the spiciest commercially-available pepper. He runs his entire company out of a small storefront in Fort Mill, South Carolina, and sells everything from seeds to pepper mash and hot sauce to more than 95 countries around the world. “I’m going to keep on working while we talk,” says Ed Currie, the founder and brains behind PuckerButt Pepper Company.Ĭurrie is a busy man.
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