It almost always happens, sometimes to an extent where I can’t even put any more in my mouth! Why does this happen? What kind of chemistry and bonds are inolved? (Keep it like I’m 5)
In: Chemistry
When you increase the Heat of a substance, you cause the molecules in that substance to move around more quickly and more energetically.
This tends to increase the rate at which chemical reactions will occur, because the molecules are moving around more and they are more likely to randomly bump into each other.
The Heat you feel from hot peppers is caused by a chemical called capsaicin interacting with one of the surface detection molecules on one of your pain receptors. When the food you are eating is more warm, that is more likely to happen. Which means that instead of having about 20% of the billions and billions of capsaicin molecules in the substance activating your receptors at once, it’ll be more like 40 or 50%.
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