Coping with Plant Volatiles in Spicy Food Burping Exercise

Coping with Plant Volatiles in Spicy Food ( Burping Exercise ) 

Spicy foods contain Plant Secondary Metabolites that humans discharge by eructation (gas belching, burping) as one of the body s first detoxication responses to xenobiotics 

Miiller-Schwarze, Hands-On Chemical Ecology Simple Field and Laboratory Exercises DOI 10.1007/ 978-l-4419-0378-5 23, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 

This exercise addresses the question Is burping (belching) part of a detoxication mechanism Does the upper GI tract function in ridding the body of potentially toxic plant compounds Specifically, does burping serve in removing plant volatiles from ingested spicy food  

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