Chili pepper

Chili pepper is a fragrant, spicy chili pepper that is quite popular today. This is also known as a relatively easy-to-grow chili pepper because it is not picky about soil, and can be grown on alluvial soil, alluvial soil, and rice fields. However, they will grow best if grown on alluvial soil, high fertility, good drainage, and sunny direction.

Known as an easy-to-grow chili, not only because of its adaptability to most soils, but also because it has the ability to grow and develop healthily and produce a lot of fruit.

The most easily recognizable external feature of this chili pepper is its shape pointing straight up to the sky. This is a woody plant with many branches, with long, tapered leaves that are pointed at the top. They usually weigh 4 – 4.2g with smooth skin, hard and thick fruit. When ripe, the fruit will have a beautiful bright red color and a characteristic spicy taste.

The spiciness of chili peppers

Usually to measure the spiciness of chili, people will use a separate unit of measurement, which is the scoville heat (abbreviated as SHU).

Along with that, based on the simplified measurement table, it can be seen that the spiciness of chili fluctuates between 0 – 100 SHU, and the highest spiciness that this unit can measure can be up to more than 1,040,000 SHU.

At Master Farm, our chili varieties reach 100,000 – 250,000 SHU degrees, suitable for many markets such as Korea; Japan; China; Europe…

Some main uses

Chili is not only an indispensable spice in Vietnamese family meals, but it is also considered one of the precious ingredients with the ability to cure “all diseases”. Let’s find out with Suni’s family!

Prevent diabetes

Accordingly, a nutritional study in Australia in 2011 showed that: if you regularly eat chili, it can help the body control insulin levels in the blood, which is extremely beneficial for people with diabetes. Also according to this study, people with a diet that added chili reduced a certain amount of blood sugar (more than 60%) compared to those who did not use chili.

Prevent stomach cancer

Many people often remind each other that eating a lot of chili will increase the risk of stomach ulcers. However, a reputable study in Mexico did not find this connection. In addition, another study in the US also showed that thanks to the ingredient Capsaicin in chili, it also helps fight stomach cancer. They even pointed out that the rate of stomach cancer is very low in Mexico – where the majority of people eat a lot of chili.

Helps relieve pain effectively

The active ingredient called Capsaicin found in chili peppers also has the ability to effectively relieve pain and is also related to the ingredients in anesthetics. According to researchers at Harvard (USA), Capsaicin can be used as a pain receptor without any effect on nerves.

That is why many pharmaceutical companies are now using chili to extract pain-relieving ingredients as anesthetics for patients during surgery.

In addition, this chili variety also has some other effects that can be mentioned as:

• Helps improve blood circulation
• Anti-flu
• Anti-prostate cancer
• Helps relax
• Sleep better
• Effective weight loss