The word bagasse, from the French bagage via the Spanish bagazo, originally meant ârubbish,â ârefuse,â or âtrash.â Applied first to the debris from the pressing of olives, palm nuts, and grapes, the word was subsequently used to mean residues from other processed plant materials such as sisal, sugarcane, and sugar beets.
How to Neutralize Acid in Chili Peppers. Stop burns from peppers like the habanero. Photo Credit Hemera Technologies/PhotoObjects.net/Getty Images. If you enjoy cooking and eating hot chili peppers, it is very easy to get a burn from these fruits because of the capsaicin compound they contain. Capsaicin interacts with your mucous membranes and stimulates your pain receptors, which is why you feel the acidic burn when you handle, cut open or consume a pepper.
Chili peppers from Central America. There are two main kinds of pepper: black pepper and chili pepper. Chili peppers come from South America, and they're related to other South American plants like tomatoes, tobacco, and potatoes. Chili doesn't taste hot to birds, so possibly the hot taste evolved so that birds would eat the fruit and mammals wouldn't-birds do a better job of spreading chili pepper seeds. But even if chili pepper plants didn't like people eating them, people liked to eat them anyway! People in South America were gathering this kind of pepper as early as 7500 BC, not long after people first came to South America. By about 4000 BC, farmers were growing chili peppers in South America.