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ELI5: Why does spicy food burn the mouth and tongue but not the throat?
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Technically it does, we just have more receptors for pain in our mouths. Because the chemical capsaicin, which is responsible for that, doesn’t actually burn, it just uses receptors in your mouth to fool it into believing it is being burned, and they happen to only affect certain receptors. We also know it does cause that reaction the whole way down due to the fact that too much gives you an upset stomach, which will result in the body trying to eject it either by ridding your body of it the usual route by very quickly passing it through your intestines, or vomiting.