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Chilli peppers may not always be as spicy as the label says. According to experts, manufacturers often do not even know how to measure the spiciness of their products correctly and sometimes quote values twice as high as the real strength. Chemists from the Brno University of Technology have therefore started testing chillis and trying to find out the exact value of their hotness.
Pavel Diviš, from the laboratory of the Institute of Chemistry, Food and Biotechnology of the University of Technology in Brno, goes through the means of measuring the spiciness of chilli peppers with Czech Radio.
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Author: Jakub Ferenčík