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It's Okay to Be Smart: The Surprising Reason We Eat Spicy Food

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Scatter plot graph plots the relationship between spices per recipe and mean annual temperature in Celsius. The higher the temperature the more spices per recipe. Next to the graph is a small map of the world with different foods and spices in the continents.

People who live near the equator use more spices per recipe than people who live far from the equator. Spices and other plant ingredients have special powers that make them a truly magical superfood. Part of the "It's Okay to Be Smart" series.

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