Meat from chickens contaminated with salmonella bacteria can cause serious food poisoning  Capsaicin, the chemical that gives chili peppers their hot flavor, has antibacterial properties  Chickens do not have taste receptors for capsaicin and will readily eat feed laced with capsaicin
When chickens were fed such feed and then exposed to salmonella bacteria, relatively few of them became contaminated with salmonella
Whether feeding capsaicin to chickens affects the taste of their meat