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chilli chocolates to help burn calories
Monday March 07, 2011 07:39:55 PM,
IANS
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London: It sounds
just too good to be true - cakes and chocolate bars that help you
burn off calories, courtesy a tasteless extract from chilli
peppers.
This "miracle" extract, known as dihydrocapsiate (DHC), speeds up
the body's metabolism, helping it use up more calories. It is
already sold in the form of diet supplement pills in the US and
Japan, but it could be about to be used as a food additive in
Britain, the Daily Mail reports.
The ingredient is one of several chemical compounds known as
capsinoids found in a particular variety of chilli.
Now a Japanese food firm Ajinomoto has submitted plans to the Food
Standards Agency watchdog with the aim of adding it to chocolate
bars, desserts and ready meals targeted towards slimmers.
It is now up to the European Commission to decide whether it can
be sold. If approved, products with DHC could appear on shelves
very soon.
According to the manufacturer, a person weighing 15 stone (approx
95 kg) consuming the recommended portions of foods containing DHC
would probably burn off only 50 extra calories a day - the
equivalent of a digestive biscuit.
Ajinomoto plans to make the ingredient synthetically as only very
small amounts can be derived from chilli peppers.
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