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The Slick Tip For Cooling Down Your Mouth After Eating Spicy Food
By Camryn Teder
Spice lovers everywhere swear by different methods to get rid of lingering spicy flavors, like glasses of milk or lemonade, but oil is the trick that works the best.
Cool down your mouth after eating spicy food by reaching for something that has oil in it, like a greasy scoop of peanut butter or even a spoonful of olive oil.
Spicy foods such as peppers contain a simple, spicy element called capsaicin. It's oil-soluble and dissolves when it comes into contact with something oily.
Consuming something oil-based after eating a spicy dish helps lift the spicy flavors from your mouth and distracts your nerves while it washes away the capsaicin.
Just swish some fatty peanut butter, almond butter, or regular cooking oil, like vegetable or grapeseed oil, around in your mouth, and then spit it out once you've found relief.