YELLOW HABENERO TEN TIMES HOTTER THAN THE RED HABENERO

BELIZE YELLOW HABENERO PEPPER IS TEN TIMES HOTTER THAN THE RED!
by Ray Auxillou, Jan. 8th, 2009

The common RED colored, hot habenero pepper in Belize is fairly hot. My wife and brother-in-law don’t much like hot peppers, but they also suffer from colds and flu. Whereas anyone who eats hot peppers are getting loads and loads of multi-vitamins that are natural, organic and in vast quantities of vitamins in the millions of mega doses. This keeps your immune system loaded and healthy. A hot pepper eater rarely gets sick. A slice a day will keep the doctor away!
That said, in an experiment to try and find a way to secretly put a small slice of hot pepper in their rice, when they are not looking, to keep them healthy; I thought I would look for a milder variety. I lit upon the idea of trying some yellow habenero peppers, instead of the common red ones, which I thought might be milder. Going on the theory of red colored vegetables and fruit should have more vitamins than yellow, or green fruit and vegetables. So off to the Macal River market I went, out here in the TWIN TOWNS of the Belize Alps foothill country, looking for some YELLOW habenero peppers. I found some and brought them home. Now I only cut a small teeny slice of the pepper, to chop up and slip in their food. I thought I would try it first. WOW!!!!!!
That YELLOW variety was so hot, even I, a hot pepper gourmet had not expected the results I got. I cut a small chip off the yellow pepper and stuck it in a salad sandwich. We grow most of our salads here in two nurseries for FALCONVIEW BACKPACKERS ADVENTURE HOSTEL on the property. Anyway, that little piece of yellow pepper was hot to the palate, but when it went down by gullet and hit my stomach acids. It was like dropping a speck of water into a bottle of hydrochloric acid. The reaction was instantaneous. Talk about fire and roiling stomach juices, flatulence and burps. WOW! Was that yellow habenero pepper hot! The next thing was that in slicing the YELLOW habenero pepper, you have to hold it in your fingers. BIG MISTAKE! You probably need asbestos gloves? A few hours later I rubbed my eyes to get some sawdust out, when ripping some lumber on the table saw, while building more extensions to FALCONVIEW HOSTEL Talk about agony and burning of the eyelids. Another thing for a good four hours, if you are a man, you better not want to urinate. When you unzip your fly, take out your weenie and urinate, the burning sensation gets so hot, you end up hopping up and down on one foot. This is like, four hours of your fingers holding and handling a YELLOW habenero pepper. Washing doesn’t help either.
The end of the story is that YELLOW habenero peppers are about ten times hotter than the red habenero peppers and I am currently putting some seeds for the milder long sweet chili peppers in my seed trays up in the nursery. I have two bushes growing now of chili peppers in my old chlorax pots, but at least if necessary I can eat those raw, as the heat is mild for me. Still plenty hot and full of vitamins for my wife and brother-in-law though.

FALCONVIEW BACKPACKERS ADVENTURE HOSTEL AND ORGANIC TROPICAL VEGETABLE NURSERY, sponsored by the VOLUNTEER BELIZE DEVELOPMENT TRUST internet NGO.

http://folkmusicfl.tripod.com/adventuresinbelize/

ARUBA SOLICITS 800 LBS OF HABENERO PEPPERS A WEEK, FROM BELIZE.

This message sent to the Bz-Culture Mailing List from "palmspring" :

An Aruba company is interested in establishing export links for the supply of
800 lbs of Habbanero peppers per week.

Anyone know of a farmer interested please contact me and I will put them in
touch directly with the potential buyer.

Happy new year to all.
Frank Redmond of Palm Springs farm

Fighting malnutrition in Belize with habenero peppers, grown hydroponically.

MALNUTRITION AND VITAMINS IN BELIZE

by Ray Auxillou, Nov/2008

There is a fair amount of malnutrition in Belize and mostly it comes from lack of vitamins. Invariably whenever you see someone sick with the flu, a cold, or some other illness, the underlying cause is malnutrition, or in other words the diet that they are accustomed to eat.

Food grown locally are fairly cheap for the basics. What is not understood by large numbers of the population is the role of vitamins. Of all the foods grown in Belize none is probably more effective for the supply of vitamins than the HABENERO PEPPER. This pepper usually red, sometimes orange, is jam packed with multi-vitamins in mega millions of doses. The Habenero Pepper can really described as the miracle food of Belize !

The trouble with Habenero Pepper is that it is HOT! Really hot. Yet a tiny slice of a Habenero Pepper each day in your food, will boost your immune system; that eaters of this pepper will rarely get sick. Certainly any flu, or colds are very light and of short term, if you get them at all.

Forty years ago, I noted when living on Caye Caulker as a school teacher,that some children were always chronically sick. They always had ulcers and sores, particularly on their legs. It took me months to figure out what was wrong. Finally one day, as a guest in their home, I noticed that the diet being fish, rice and beans was served with optional hot pepper. The children would not eat the hot pepper, because the pepper was really very hot and burned the lips and pallet. The adults ate it and were healthy. Using a book on nutrition donated to me by the Agency of International Development out of Washington 25, D.C. on nutrition and vitamins, I started to sort through different tropical foods and was startled to find that a hot red pepper was richer in ALL the vitamins, beating out fruit like apples, or Vitamin A found in cod liver oil in Canada. The amounts of vitamin quantities were outstanding. In the multi-millions of doses. Further study revealed that almost any tropical fruit that was colored, RED, ORANGE , or YELLOW had more vitamins than anything of any other color. Many food sources that are eaten GREEN lack any vitamins, yet if you wait until they turn RED, they become rich in vitamins.

In the case of the primary school children, I reported this to the National Health Authority and they started a program of giving school children tablets of vitamins nationwide and this cured a lot of early childhood health problems.

As recently as yesterday, one of the High School boys that do odd jobs for me, was sick with a COLD and FLU. I asked him if he ate hot peppers, particularly RED HABENERO PEPPERS and he said no! They were too hot. So, I gave him a lecture on vitamins and this boy was 18 years old. I told him to eat a small slice of one pepper each day in his rice, or whatever food he ate and he would stay healthy. You do not have to eat a lot, just a little piece. There is no reason to have the flu, or a serious cold. These peppers are small to start with. I have the same problem with my wife and brother-in-law. They do not like to eat hot peppers. Yet the road to a strong immune system is any kind of RED fruit, or vegetable. I’ve proved it over and over again to my satisfaction in Belize . Yet, still today, there are too many people here in Belize that will not eat healthy. The thing is, a small habenero pepper bush will grow in your yard for two or three years, producing peppers with almost no attention at all and fabulously, if you scatter a little food scraps around the base of the bush and give it some water when it is dry. Three such habenero bushes will supply a family of five, with enough fresh peppers monthly.

The photo up top is hydroponic grown habenero peppers.