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How Spicy Foods Can Help You Burn An Extra 116 Calories A Day

Here's why cranking up the heat revs your metabolsim - by Alisa Hrustic
  • 10 Apr 2018
How Spicy Foods Can Help You Burn An Extra 116 Calories A Day
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Want to boost your metabolism? Go for something spicy, a new study published in Obesity Open Access suggests.

For the study, researchers gave 40 men and women a 2-milligram capsule of capsaicinoids—the component that gives chillies their heat—or a placebo every day. Then, they measured their metabolic rate each hour for three hours after taking the pill.

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They found that people who supplemented with the capsaicinoids capsule burned an extra 116 calories per day compared to people who popped the placebo.

That’s because capsaicinoids may have a thermogenic effect, the study authors write, meaning your body creates more heat as it digests the hot stuff, which results in more calories burned. 

If you're looking for a bit of flavour, try Tabasco.

While the study received funding from the makers of Capsimax—the same capsaicinoids supplement used in the study—previous research backs up their findings. For example, one 2011 study from Purdue University also found that people burned more calories and had less of an appetite after eating red pepper.

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