In the search for dietary components that would promote fat oxidation and thermogenesis, the pungent spices in foods have attracted interest, triggered initially, perhaps, by their apparent ability to warm the body 'subjectively'. Of particular interest in the study reported by Yoshioka et al . In other words, spices rich in capsaicinoids have the potential for adjusting fat oxidation to fat intake. It makes one wonder about the extent to which they could already be helping many of us to put our excess dietary fat into the fire. The management of obesity.
Some pungent principles cause the adrenal medulla to secrete catecholamine in anesthetized rats.