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What are the different varieties of chili peppers?

Hot chili peppers are widely used in cooking absolutely everywhere. With this pepper dishes become brighter, tastier. What sorts of chili peppers exist in nature? Which varieties considered to be the most burning?

There are many varieties of chili peppers, which do not have it: Birdseye, serrano, jalapeno, habanero, Anaheim, poblano.
In any of these varieties of chilli contains sugar, carotene, capsanthin, capsorubin, vitamins B, C, A.
Zhguchest peppers gives it the alkaloid capsaicin.

Chile pepper uplifting, rescues from insomnia, improves digestion. But to abuse the use of pepper still not worth it. He is good in moderation.

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By the way, here's a curious fact: in chili peppers contain vitamin C twice more than in fresh lemon. But this vitamin is stored in such numbers only in the fresh peppers, the heat treatment chili peppers loses half of all stocks of the vitamin.

Chile pepper, it turns out, not only makes the dish spicy and throws a man to take food into the pot, he also helps people quickly burn or oxidize fat.

2. The most acute of all the peppers is a sort of "Habanera". This pepper has a slightly fruity notes on the palate, but the unusually pungent pepper. Pepper is added to the dish just a couple of minutes (and added it entirely and not cut) and then removed and discarded. The dish habanero pepper varieties do not leave.



3. Next, our hero - pepper shaped eyes called Avian (Bird's eye)! His homeland is India, and the taste in its pure form - the assurances experienced - is like an explosion! It is very often used in oriental dishes, marinades, condiments and canned goods, as well as for the manufacture of a variety of Capsicum vodka and liqueurs. I do not whether this character is floating in a bottle of pepper vodka Ukrainian?



4. Next comes a handsome Serrano (Serrano)! It has the characteristic shape of a bullet, and unlike previous companions - green. So if you have always believed that a sharp - then red - I can assure you that this rule has exceptions!



5. Many people must have heard about the next hero - Jalapeno pepper (Jalapeno)! Ball also named it in honor of the city - this time Xalapa in the state of Veracruz in Mexico. Its main distinguishing feature - upturned! A color may be red and green. Connoisseurs appreciate him for that when it creates a feeling in the mouth from "warm" to "hot".



6. Next, handsome - Poblano peppers (Poblano) - a large, dark green chilli medium spicy. Overripe peppers become very rich red color. So rich that often it seems to be just black. Very often, these stuffed peppers - this contributes to their relatively large size and thick skin.



7. And finally, our last hero - Pepper Anaheim (Anaheim). It is quite large and is valued for its mild and fresh taste. Unlike previous comrades who pulled only spice, this is already quite a present can be considered a vegetable!



8. This overview is by no means does not pretend to be complete and absolute completeness! For today all over the world have described more than 200 varieties of chili!

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