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Chili peppers can be consumed fresh, dried, smoked, cooked, or raw to season and flavor any type of dish based on meat, fish, pasta, or sauces. Chili peppers are potent vasodilators due to lecithin, which strengthens the coronary arteries and provides good elasticity to the arteries. For this reason, they are considered an aphrodisiac food and a boon to our health. Ripe chili peppers are particularly rich in vitamins, carotenoids, and minerals such as potassium, calcium, and phosphorus. Additionally, containing flavonoids and capsaicinoids, chili peppers have antibacterial effects, allowing foods cooked with them to be preserved for a relatively long time. Chili peppers have strong antioxidant properties. They are useful in treating colds, sinusitis, and bronchitis, and they aid digestion. By stimulating intestinal peristalsis, chili peppers promote transit and evacuation. Chili peppers can also be used as a pain reliever in arthritis, diabetic neuropathy, post-herpetic neuralgia, trigeminal neuralgia, post-mastectomy symptoms, and cluster headaches. It is also hypothesized that the sensation of pain produced by capsaicin stimulates the brain to produce endorphins, a natural opiate that acts as an analgesic and produces a sense of well-being. Chili peppers are also thought to be an aphrodisiac food, but there is no study or evidence to support their alleged aphrodisiac properties.