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Introduction

Have you ever wondered exactly how hot a pepper tastes? Is there a numerical value that can indicate the spiciness of a pepper? Is there a way we can measure the spiciness without tasting it? These are only a few questions that will be answered in this project. Even though there exists a few methods of finding the spiciness of a type of pepper quantitatively using chemistry, they are either very imprecise or require some very high-end equipment such as HPLC found only in advanced laboratories. This project explores a simpler and cheaper objective quantitative method to determine the piquancy of a type of pepper. Seven different type of peppers found across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) were studied. Interestingly, an important mathematical relationship was found and completed the quantitative measurement of piquancy.

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