Why do you think people who live in ome hot countrie eat very picy(辛辣的)food? I it becaue the pice make the food tate better? I it jut becaue their parent and grandparent and great-grandparent liked hot food，or i there ome connection between pice and healthy food? Reearcher from Cornell Univerity think that it i becaue pice plant have ome important chemical. Thee chemical can kill bacteria(细菌)which poil food．
“Mot common pice can kill 75 to 100 percent of the bacteria in food，”explain one of the cientit．The bacteria grow more eaily and poil(变质)food more quickly at higher temperature．For thi reaon，it i more difficult to keep food from poiling in hot climate，
Do you like your food picy? Your anwer probably tell omething about the country you come from．If you like picy food，it i poible that hundred of year ago，when there were no fridge，people in your country tarted uing pice to keep the food from poiling．The traditional picy dihe helped thoe people to live longer，healthier live．Today，in a time of fridge，the pice jut make the food tate good．