Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Why you sweating me?
When hot sauce is consumed, a common reaction by the body is to sweat, particularly on the forehead. The scientific term for this reaction is gustatory perspiration.
Gustatory sweating is sweating that occurs on the forehead, scalp, neck, and upper lip while eating, talking, or thinking about food. For many people, sweating occurs due to eating hot and spicy food. For others, however, it happens frequently after eating any food.
And the burning feeling that makes hot sauce so appealing to pyro-gourmaniacs comes from a collection of compounds called capsaicinoids.