A Hot Commodity: Chili Production
In A Hot Commodity: Chili Production, presenter Cherry Healey visits Guntur, India, to explore a chili farm and factory. Her eyes are watering, but that doesn’t stop her from helping pick, process, and grind the chili plants into powder. Learn how chili flakes and powder are made, and how India supplies the entire world with chili. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Inside the Factory, a series that takes viewers behind the scenes in the factories that make our favorite products.
Lesson Express
Q: What did you learn about how chilis are harvested?
A: Students may mention that chilis are grown on small farms, that they are bright red and are picked off of bushes, that the farms are located in India, and other facts from the video.
Q: How do they process or prepare the chilis?
A: The chilis are dried for days and then they are packed by stepping on them in a bag.
Q: Where do the chilis that are processed in this factory go?
A: They are sent all around the world.
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In Feeling the Heat: What Happens When We Eat Chilis, presenter Cherry Healey visits the University of Sheffield to learn what makes chilis hot and how our mouths respond. Cherry conducts an impromptu experiment. Learn which drink can cut the heat and how. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Inside the Factory, a series that takes viewers behind the scenes in the factories that make our favorite products.