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Calories: 370kcal/100g
Function: Adds spiciness, enhances flavor, adds color
Introduction: Chili flakes, also known as chili powder, are a spice made from dried chili peppers that undergo processes such as roasting, pressing, and grinding. With its rich and spicy flavor, chili flakes can enhance the taste and add flavor to dishes. Chili flakes come in different varieties, including sweet, smoky, and extra spicy, and they can be paired with other ingredients to intensify their flavors, making dishes more delicious. Chili flakes contain various nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamin A, and carotenoids, providing high nutritional value and serving as a source of nourishment for the body. In traditional Chinese medicine, chili is characterized as pungent and hot in nature and associated with the spleen and stomach meridians. The process of making chili flakes generally does not alter its properties. Capsaicin, found in chili flakes, can stimulate taste buds, which play a vital role in perceiving flavors. Stimulation of taste buds can also enhance appetite to some extent.