Chili powder
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Calories: 370kcal/100g
Function: Adds spiciness, enhances flavor, adds color
Introduction: Chili powder, also referred to as chili flakes, is a seasoning produced by roasting, compressing, and grinding dried chili peppers. Due to being ground into a fine powder, it is commonly known as chili powder. With its rich and spicy flavor, chili powder enhances the taste and adds a fiery touch to dishes. Chili powder offers diverse flavors including sweet, smoky, and intensely spicy varieties. It can be combined with other ingredients to amplify their flavors, resulting in more delectable dishes. Chili powder contains an array of nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamin A, carotenoids, and more, providing considerable nutritional value and supplementing the body’s needs. In traditional Chinese medicine, chili is characterized as having a pungent and hot taste, associated with the spleen and stomach meridians. The transformation of chili peppers into chili powder generally does not alter its properties. The capsaicin present in chili powder stimulates taste buds, which play a crucial role in perceiving flavors. Activation of taste buds can also contribute to increasing appetite to a certain extent.