Bautista says a lot of what we know comes from studying plants ... "Szechwan") peppercorn. Sponsor Message When I visited her lab, Bautista had told me what to expect while tasting the pepper ...

Pepper buzz The tingle diners feel while eating foods containing Szechuan peppercorn is equivalent to being lightly tapped on the lips 50 times per second, a new study finds. Szechuan peppercorn ...

You’ve taken your first bite of boiled fish with green pepper sauce at Chengdu Taste ... You know it’s the Szechuan peppercorns, the taste of which is often described as tingling.

You can use the leaves in soups and salads, while the pepper we buy is the husk of the fruit; the bitter seeds are not used. Male and female plants are required to produce seeds. If you have seeds ...

Farmerscould stop prairie voles from eating their crops by spraying extracts from Szechuan pepper around the plants. The hot sauce could deter animals that seem immune to other fiery chemicals ...

New research shows that a molecule in Szechuan peppers activates your cells’ touch receptors, making them feel like they’ve been vibrated rapidly. Photo by Flickr user diwineanddine If ...

Somatosensation, or the sense of touch, is the process whereby we detect changes in ambient temperature or pressure. This sensory modality is mediated by subsets of primary afferent neurons that ...

Normal black peppercorns need more heat than you'll get in Britain — but there are extraordinary alternatives which will spice up your cooking and even save you a fortune, as Mark Diacono explains.