How much does eating chili peppers disturb your stomach?

There are probably hundreds of types of chili peppers in the world, ranging from the very mild green bell pepper to the insanely hot Bhut Jolokia (among the hottest chili peppers in the world). Just too many variables to answer this question with any kind of accuracy. read more

There are certain peppers that can cause your stomach to hurt in less than 5 mins after they are consumed, and a few peppers that do nothing at all. Serrano chilli or serrano pepper is probably one of the mildest ones available in India, that we eat in this dish called 'Mirchi pakoda'. read more

Very serious discomfort aside, there don’t seem to be long-term dangers, per se, in eating very hot peppers . The responses that your body might have if you’d swallowed a caustic substance come into play with high levels of capsaicin because that is, after all, what the molecule mimics. read more