Mexican chili pepper: small but spicy!

The chili pepper, besides a corn and a bean, was a one of the essential products of Mexican cuisine since a Prehispanic days. Now, it is still present among the main ingredients of Mexican dishes. It is hard even to find the one without chili pepper! There is a special dish which the Mexican people prepare on Independence Day of Mexico. It is called "chile en nogada" and consist of green chili pepper stuffed with meat, white sauce and seeds of pomegranate. It refers to national colours of Mexico. 

In Mexico, there are more than fourty types of chili pepper and its pungency we can measure with the Scoville scale. It is worth a mantion its nutritious value and a good influence on our health. This is both a piquent vegetable and exquisite condiment. Moreover, it's not only one of low-calorie foods, but also an excellent source of different vitamins. For example, it's a vegetable of major concentration of vitamin C! The incredible thing is also that a fresh chili pepper contains more than a double of vitamin C than the lemon and orange! Thanks to that it increases the immunity of our organism during the cold seasons. It is worth adding that the chili pepper, like a chocolate, liberates endorphins: happy hormons which make us feel better! :D

Now you can see that the Mexican food is not only very tasty and hot but also very rich in nutritious components. However, you have to remember one more thing: if you overdose the chili pepper, it is absolutely necessary to take some sugar, bread, milk or cream as quick as possible. The water is not very useful in this case!