Re: chipotle and mouth sores?

[Guest guest]

Unless you have a sensitivity to jalapenos or chilis in general

chipotle shouldn't have caused it. They are just jalepeno peppers

that are smoked and dried instead of eaten fresh. I guess the dried

part could make them a little hotter due to being more concentrated.

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>

> I bought some Niman Ranch chipotle bacon without knowing what chipotle

> is. The first time I licked my fingers after taking it out of the pan

> and it burned, I figured it was an abberation, but the second time I

> attributed it to some inherent characteristic of the bacon. Today

> using Google I discovered that it is chiopotle is a very spicy

> jalapeno pepper. :-P

>

> Anyway, I noticed getting this sore on my cheek pretty soon after

> eating a few pieces of bacon wrapped up in toast. I looked in the

> mirror and it looks like a little blood blister. Is it plausible to

> attribute this to the chipotle?

>

> Chris

>

[Guest guest]

LOL! I'm sorry but you just put that so amusingly!

Pure capsaicin extract can cause burn blisters, but I've never heard of

natural chipotle doing so.

-Lana

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Masterjohn <chrismasterjohn@...>

wrote:

> I bought some Niman Ranch chipotle bacon without knowing what chipotle

> is. The first time I licked my fingers after taking it out of the pan

> and it burned, I figured it was an abberation, but the second time I

> attributed it to some inherent characteristic of the bacon. Today

> using Google I discovered that it is chiopotle is a very spicy

> jalapeno pepper. :-P

>

> Anyway, I noticed getting this sore on my cheek pretty soon after

> eating a few pieces of bacon wrapped up in toast. I looked in the

> mirror and it looks like a little blood blister. Is it plausible to

> attribute this to the chipotle?

>

> Chris

>

[Guest guest]

Lana,

> LOL! I'm sorry but you just put that so amusingly!

Glad to be of service. :-)

> Pure capsaicin extract can cause burn blisters, but I've never heard of

> natural chipotle doing so.

Well if capsaicin can cause burn blisters and capsaicin is in chipotle

bacon and chipotle bacon gave me a burn blister in my mouth I would

say that it was th ecapsaicin in the chipotle that did it, so now

you've heard of such a case.

Thanks! :-)

Chris

[Guest guest]

That must be one spicy bacon! I think I'll be steering clear of that.

I hope it heals fast, those burns suck.

-Lana

> Well if capsaicin can cause burn blisters and capsaicin is in chipotle

> bacon and chipotle bacon gave me a burn blister in my mouth I would

> say that it was th ecapsaicin in the chipotle that did it, so now

> you've heard of such a case.

>

> Thanks! :-)

>

> Chris

>

[Guest guest]

Lana,

> That must be one spicy bacon! I think I'll be steering clear of that.

> I hope it heals fast, those burns suck.

Well, that or I'm just particularly sensitive to capsaicin (or however

you spell it).

Now, there is no longer a bump, but the area feels strange, like it is

rough and has some tissue damage. This is very interesting to me

because I get this exact feeling in the inside of my mouth, usually on

my cheeks and sometimes under my tongue, but without the blood blister

and without and obvious cause. So now I wonder if exposure to smaller

amounts of chemicals that are similar in some structural or functional

way to capsaicin are the culprits in the more moderate effect I get

sometimes.

Chris