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- "bitter (if it's fresh)" It has a very unique bite because of this *proteolytic* enzyme it contains (when fresh), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromelain ht
by perihelions 2y ago
- "bitter (if it's fresh)"
It has a very unique bite because of this *proteolytic* enzyme it contains (when fresh),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromelain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromelain
It's literally trying, and mostly failing, to digest your tongue.
One other very unique one is the Sichuan pepper, which is not a "spicy pepper" in the conventional, capsaicin sense, rather an idiosyncratic chemical that's... Wikipedia calls it "tingling, numbing":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_pepper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_pepper