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I heard you can die from eating too much hot sauce (ie the hottest hot sauces)?

April 26, 2017die eating heard hot Hottest sauce sauces

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I heard you can die from eating too much hot sauce (ie the hottest hot sauces)?

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The super-hot sauces will not seriously harm you. “Comprehensive nutritional studies have not shown any adverse effects of chile or capsaicinoids even at ten times the maximum use levels,” wrote the one world’s experts on capsaicin, V.S. Govindarajan, author of the mammoth study, Capsicum–Production, Technology, Chemistry and Quality. But even if you do overindulge in super-hot sauces, do not worry, for they are quickly metabolized in the liver and excreted in the urine within a few hours. (Excerpted from The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia, by Dave DeWitt, William Morrow & Co., 1999).