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Bullet Chilli

The Bullet Chilli Jalapeno plant has a magnificent outlook that explains the quality of chillies they produce. It’s a strong vigorous plant high adaptable to many growing areas producing bullet-like hot fruits. This plant grows to fair heights and bears a lot of branches to increase fruit or chilly pods bearing.

Health benefits of chili peppers

  1. Chili pepper contains an impressive list of plant derived chemical compounds that are known to have disease preventing and health promoting properties.
  2. Chilies contain health benefiting an alkaloid compound, capsaicin, which gives them strong spicy, pungent character. Early laboratory studies on experimental mammals suggest that capsaicin has anti-bacterial, anti-carcinogenic, analgesic and anti-diabetic properties. It also found to reduce LDL cholesterol levels in obese.
  3. They are also good in other antioxidants such as vitamin-A, and flavonoids like β-carotene, α-carotene, lutein, zeaxanthin, and cryptoxanthin. These antioxidant substances in capsicum help protect the body from injurious effects of free radicals generated during stress, diseases conditions.
  4. Chilies carry a good amount of minerals like potassium, manganese, iron, and magnesium. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that helps controlling heart rate and blood pressure. The human body use manganese as a co-factor for the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase.