Most of us love spicy dishes for their irresistible flavor — but piquant foods like hot sauce just might have some equally pleasant side-effects in the bedroom. To put it bluntly, it’s entirely possible that a healthy dose of hot sauce could serve to spice up your sex life, too. …

The underdog of the chilli world We love this pepper for its deceiving underdog nature. Why? The bird’s eye chilli — at around an inch long — packs some serious heat into a small package. It’s proof that you should never judge a book (or a pepper) by its cover. …

Why does no one know about the endangered zebra? — Of the three species of zebra alive today, two currently face endangerment. One of them, the Grevy’s zebra, has experienced a devastating population decline of over 54% in just the last forty years. Currently, only around 2,800 of them roam Africa’s wilderness. The quagga, another of the zebra’s unique subspecies…

Hot sauce is absolutely everywhere nowadays. From Hot sauce festivals to TV shows to having “hot sauce in your bag swag” (Thank you, Beyoncé) it’s surpassed mere condiment status and has become a genre of the zeitgeist. But why is hot sauce so popular and how did we get here…

Like all chili peppers, Peri-Peri is descended from plants from the Americas, but it has grown in the wild in Africa for centuries and is now cultivated commercially in Zambia, Uganda, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Rwanda. It grows mainly in Malawi, Zambia, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Portugal. It…