Can a hot pepper kill fat cells?
Apparently it can, in a test tube anyway. Taiwanese researchers have been spending time mixing the compound Capsaicin (commonly found in hot red peppers) with baby fat cells because I guess they just became curious one day what would happen if they did.There's no information yet if this works the same in the human body, but when the scientists put the two together in a test tube the fat cells died before maturing. The article doesn't say if they know whether the effect is the same on mature cells, or how much of the compound they used -- as far as wondering just how many peppers might we have to eat?
But don't go chugging hot sauce yet -- there's no data as of now to show it will do anything other than give you watery eyes and heartburn.
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