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[–] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Capsaicin is a crystalline structure. Pure capsaicin is 16 million scoville units, and is a crystal. I highly doubt there's any food that anyone is eating that is 14 million scoville units per bite. That would require 87.5% of the food to be crystalline.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s a powder flavoring applied on top of a chip.

    People don’t eat huge chunks of salt any more than they are eating chunks of capsaicin.

    If we can salt chips, we can probably capsaicinize them too.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    You're right, but scoville units are an absolute measurement of the concentration of capsaicin. In order to have something be 14 million scoville units it would have to be comprised of 87.5% capsaicin. 16 million scoville units is the measurement of pure capsaicin. It's simple math.

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