Pepper can often appear on the table as a matching ingredient, and many people love it. Eating pepper in moderation has many benefits, such as helping to detoxify, sweating, increasing nutrition, enhancing appetite and dispelling cold. However, excessive consumption will be harmful to human health, such as excessive internal heat, decreased taste sensitivity, obesity and digestive system diseases, so it is necessary to eat it in moderation.

First, the benefits:

1, help detoxify and perspire: Chili can accelerate blood circulation and metabolism, help perspire and detoxify;

2, increase nutrition: Chili contains a variety of nutrients needed by the human body, and moderate consumption is good for health. Pepper contains more vitamin C and carotene, and vitamin C is helpful for whitening and antioxidation. Carotene can be converted into vitamin A, which can lubricate the cornea and prevent night blindness.

3, enhance appetite: Chili is pungent, which can stimulate oral mucus secretion and gastrointestinal peristalsis, thus increasing appetite;

4, dispelling cold: Chili can promote systemic blood circulation and play a role in dispelling cold in a cold environment;

5. Others: Pepper contains a lot of capsaicin. Proper consumption contributes to the secretion of hormones in the body and is beneficial to normal blood lipid and blood pressure. At the same time, because pepper contains vitamins, it can promote the conversion of cholesterol into bile acid in human body, which can play a certain auxiliary role in preventing stones. In addition, eating spicy food in moderation can help relieve stress.

Second, the shortcomings:

1, get angry: Chili is very irritating, and excessive consumption can easily lead to get angry, which can easily lead to stomatitis and facial acne;

2, reduce the taste sensitivity: if you eat too much capsaicin in pepper, it will paralyze the taste nerve and reduce the taste sensitivity, which will reduce the taste in severe cases;

3, leading to obesity: Because pepper can increase appetite, it will consume more carbohydrates and fat during eating, and long-term consumption will easily lead to obesity;

4, causing digestive system diseases: excessive consumption of pepper will stimulate gastrointestinal mucosa, easily lead to diarrhea, abdominal pain, causing gastroenteritis, digestive tract ulcers, digestive tract polyps and other diseases.

Some people should not eat too much pepper, such as hyperthyroidism, hemorrhoids, hypertension, liver disease, nephritis and other patients, which may aggravate the condition. Daily consumption of pepper can be combined with some cool foods, such as bitter gourd and lettuce, to prevent it from affecting health.