eLi5: Why does drinking milk help after eating spicy food?
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The chemical that you sense as spicy is called capsaicin. It’s a fat soluble compound, basically a type of oil that coats your mouth. You can’t wash away oil with water as water and oil don’t mix. You need something attracted to oil that can bind to it better than it binds to your mouth which is what the fats in milk does.
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