Why does spicy food make people sweat?!
Answers: "The answer hinges on the fact that spicy foods excite the receptors in the skin that normally respond to heat. Those receptors are pain fibers, technically known as polymodal nociceptors. They respond to temperature extremes and to intense mechanical stimulation, such as pinching and cutting; they also respond to certain chemical influences. The central nervous system can be confused or fooled when these pain fibers are stimulated by a chemical, like that in chile peppers, which triggers an ambiguous neural response.
LoL maybe because its hot? LoL
Sweating has a cooling influence one the body.
bcuz its hot duh
something in the ingredients
Spicy foods, such as jalapenos and chili peppers, contain a chemical which stimulates the same nerve endings in the mouth as does a rise in temperature.
These nerves, which don't know the difference, send messages to the brain telling it the temperature near your face has increased. Your brain reacts by activating cooling mechanisms to reduce the temperature around your face, and one of those mechanisms is perspiration. allergy? You, sweat mainly because the spice!! Black, pepper, Paprika, or chili powder, will cause it!! When eating foods loaded with chiles, ginger, hot sauces and certain spices you’ll sweat.
Because sweating is the body’s cooling system, producing a little perspiration should lower the exterior body temp a degree or two. Hot Hot!!
Capsasin.
Its the chemical in hot peppers that makes them hot.
The capsasin level is measured in scoval (spelling?) units.
A Jalepeno has around 5000 scoval units of heat.
A Habenero has over 100000 scoval units.
Even a green bell pepper has 50 or so scoval units of heat.
Spicy food is found in hot regions of the world because is makes you sweat - its natures air conditioner.
Mild foods are found in cold climates because sweating can be deadly - in the artic, sweating leads to hypothermia.
Capsasin makes people sweat because when a human gets hot, their pours open. Capsasin causes the same reaction through chemical reactions so to us, it feels like the same sensation even though the cause has nothing to do with temperature. Capsasin sort of tricks the body into thinking it is hot so the body starts to sweat.
Its the same sort of chemical trickery that makes peppermint 'taste' cool. The reaction the body has to cold temperatures is elicited chemically by the active ingredient in peppermint.
Ever try hot pepper ice cream? Man is that confusing... really good too.
cos when we feel hot we sweat and as spicy food makes us feel hot we sweat
because capsaicins (the chemicals that make food taste "hot") interfere with certain taste receptors on your tongue and trigger sweating (actually the taste receptors are fooled by capsaicins and react by triggering sweating). Calcium is the mediator here (the element which takes part in the capsaicin-triggered response). The way to overcome this is to have a couple of sips of cold milk which will in turn off the taste receptors and stop the sweating reflex. Water is useless and beer makes things worse.
Because it makes the arousal hormones get to work, so your body thinks your having hot, sweaty sex.
Or do I only get that because usually I actually am?
I dunno.
Some spices dialate the blood vessels and make you much hotter and you perspire to cool off.