Pungency: A reason for the sluggish expansion of hot spicy foods from the tropics
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Reply to: Abdel-Salam OME. Preference for hot pepper: A complex interplay of personal, cultural, and pharmacological effects. Temperature 2016; 3:38-9; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/ 23328940.2015.1111289; Bosland PW. Hot stuff – do people living in hot climates like their food spicy hot or not? Temperature 2016; 3:40-1; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23328940.2015.1130521; Caterina MJ. Seeking the tropical heat – a matter of microbes? Temperature 2016; 3:42-4; http:// dx.doi.org/10.1080/23328940.2016.1139963; Chahl LA. Hot genes and hot tropics. Temperature 2016; 3:45-6; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/ 23328940.2015.1133878; Gutierrez R and Simon SA. Why do people living in hot climates like their food spicy? Temperature 2016; 3:47-8; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23328940.2015.1119616; Mozsik G. It remains a mystery why people living in hot climates consume spicier food. Temperature 2016; 3:49-50; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23328940.2015.1131033; Thornton JS. Spicy heat love: less taste than protection from food poisoning? Temperature 2016; 3:51-2; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23328940.2015.1130522
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