Chillies come in many degrees of heat, from the sweet painless bell peppers to the “Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper”, a superlatively hot chili that needs to be handled with gloves. A less ...

A viral tweet claims that green, red, orange, and yellow bell peppers are all the same plant at different degrees of ripeness. But it's just not true, as a farmer told INSIDER in an interview.

The chilli plant is native to Central America: for all chillies are associated with Asian and African cooking, they were introduced by Portuguese traders – take vindaloo, long a spicy nemesis of ...

Chilli is used in sauces and pastes, where it is almost always mixed with other ingredients to help balance the spice level and give them a fuller, more complex flavour.