There’s a certain kind of hot sauce fan who stopped chasing the Scoville leaderboard a while ago. They still love heat, but what pulls them across the room now is flavor: smoke, oak, a little sweetness, the sense that someone let the sauce sit and …
Let me run through some of what launched in the past year or so. Hershey put out Jolly Rancher Heat Wave gummies in January, coated in what the company calls a “chili inspired finish.” Health-Ade released a strawberry mango chili kombucha. Dairy Queen built an …
If you eat a lot of chili peppers, your feed probably served you something alarming a couple of weeks ago (July 2026 in this case, but, as you’ll see…these dates are not alone.) “Eating chili peppers may raise the risk of one deadly cancer.” (Science …
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