30 Sep 2025

Shower Thoughts: Can I increase my spice tolerance?

From Nights, 8:50 pm on 30 September 2025

Every Tuesday we find an expert to answer our curious questions about the world and how it works.

Why is it that some people can eat the spiciest food, and others just can't cope with any kind of heat? And is there any way we can train ourselves to be able to eat really spicy food?

Dr Farhana Pinu from the Bioeconomy Science Institute is here to help answer all of these questions.

France, Pyrenees Atlantiques, Basque Country, Itxassou, strings of Espelette PDO chilli peppers drying on a facade of a Labourdine house (Photo by MAISANT Ludovic / hemis.fr / hemis.fr / Hemis via AFP)

Photo: MAISANT Ludovic / hemis.fr