As well as the listed medical benefits, spices were originally used to preserve foods (usually meats). Therefore, the spiciest foods come from the hottest areas, where food preservation has been the trickiest to accomplish.<<<
Back in the 1950/60 era, Rodale was investigating and found that the countries that ate the most hot peppers, had the least stomach cancer...........
Bill had the use of only one lung, for he was shot through one in WW2 and it was full of scar tissue.
A common cold would almost kill him and when we moved to Wellton, a local Indian man told him to eat Jalapeno peppers every day and he would not have colds.
So he did, I went to Mexico and bought the pickled Jalapeno peppers in gallon cans, they were always first on the table and in the lunch box..........and he stopped having the colds.
They are the highest vit C of all the foods.