What is Paprika Drops?
Paprika Drops is a seasoning exclusively made of natural ingredients, which can make your dishes really hot, while at the same time preserving their flavour and consistency, as well as the positive effects of chili pepper on your health. When creating this product, our main objective was to enable you to enjoy your excellent dishes in their original flavours, and to ensure that everybody could make them as spicy as they like.
Ways to use Paprika Drops:
Perfect adjustment of the spiciness of your dishes! We have all experienced during cooking that one kind of hot pepper was just barely spicy, while the use of only a half of the other kind made the dish inedible. This cannot happen anymore! Every single drop of Paprika Drops contains the same amount of pepper extract.
An alternative to subsequent flavouring!
With families, companies and catering units it is a frequent problem that dishes are not made spicy enough in order to enable everybody to eat them. In addition to black pepper, usually raw green pepper, salty pepper cream, chili sauces or dried hot peppers are offered, if anything. Let us compare them one by one with Paprika Drops:
Sliced green pepper: If we are lucky, we get a hot one, but having to crunch raw pepper in every bite quite disturbs the enjoyment of the dish and, furthermore, there are the seeds; additionally, we can only make one bite hot with this solution, and we cannot control its intensity. In contrast, the pepper extract of Paprika Drops is already in a water solution, so we do not have to wait for it to be dissolved. It immediately makes our dish consistently hot. Sliced green pepper might have serious risks on health because we cannot be sure whether it has been properly cleaned and who has dipped the serving spoon into what kind of food. In contrast, Paprika Drops remains microbiologically stable after opening as well, so we do not have to be afraid that it will go off.
Dried pepper: It is very hard to find a good quality one that is hot and not rancid or musty. It is a real nightmare to soak the dried pepper in any kind of dish subsequently, and even if we succeed, we immediately have to wash our hands and then avoid its pieces and seeds. In addition, it might have serious risks on health Paprika Drops, however, immediately dissolves, it does not leave anything behind, only the smell and fire of excellent pepper. Paprika Drops cannot turn rancid, because its packaging protects it from external air; also, different mould types or bacteria cannot proliferate in it. It is important to note that various dried spices pose a significant risk for several reasons: If they are exposed to moisture, they can easily become mouldy, and if they were not treated appropriately before drying, they might be carriers of various bacteria that might seriously damage your health (Bacillus cereus, Salmonella, C. perrfingens). It is also an aggravating circumstance that most of the spice exporting countries do not have strict food safety laws similar to those of the European Union.
Pepper creams: They are all preserved in salt without exception. By the time we manage to make the tasty dish hot, it will become salty with a lot of pepper husk and seed floating on the top of it. A container that was opened a long time ago and has been used by a lot of people might pose very serious risks on hygiene and health! In contrast, Paprika Drops preserves its freshness up to one year after it was opened, so it will last for quite a while. It lasts due to the precisely adjusted alcohol-water compound. Salt did not have to be used, so you do not have to be afraid that the dish will become too salty! Due to the cutting-edge drip dispenser, we can be sure that it will remain fresh, as nobody will have to use a spoon.
Chili sauces: There are tomato or vinegar types and different oily variations, but all of them have a certain side-taste. (“Újházi” chicken soup with a slight caramel-soy after-taste… a matter of taste whether you will like that)
Choosing to make a pizza, hamburger, stuffed cabbage or a good fish soup hot with any of the options above will require very serious compromises. Although Paprika Drops possesses every alkaloid of chili, it does not change the flavour of your dishes. It adds power and character to them. Preparation of perfect marinades and sauces in a quick and cost-effective way. You do not have to worry about how many chili pepper slices will get on a slice of meat, and you will not have to prepare spice oils months in advance! Due to the special solution technology, it does not float on the top of the marinade, so it seasons your dishes and life evenly and consistently.
What is Paprika Drops made from?
Distilled water, alcohol, natural whole pepper extract. It does not contain any other ingredients! Alcohol sufficiently decreased the water activity of the product, so no other chemical (e.g. sodium benzoate) or natural (e.g. salt, vinegar) preservatives had to be used. No fine print, no mysterious E numbers and no hidden allergenic ingredients (e. g. “may contain soy”)
*The positive effects of Paprika Drops:
In addition to capsaicin, the whole pepper extract also contains alkaloid, which encapsulates the favourable effects of chili.
*Paprika Drops and a cold:
The capsaicin in Paprika Drops triggers heat loss due to sweating (basically it starts thermogenesis, which induces sweating), so it can be successfully applied for the treatment of the common cold. Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) has long been applied for the treatment of flu symptoms but, unfortunately, the mycoderm of the stomach is often damaged due to the excessive consumption of aspirin. Fortunately, Paprika Drops psuccessfully rotects the stomach form the harmful effects of aspirin. Those who use acetylsalicylic acid for the protection of their circulatory system especially need to consider the moderate consumption of Paprika Drops.
*Paprika Drops and diets:
Endre Hőgyes (1847-1906) already pointed out that pepper extract is responsible for the exacerbation of the mycoderm and the skin, and also for the increased production of saliva and gastric juice. If our body secretes more saliva and gastric juice, the digestion of nutritives is accelerated. A lot of people believe that capsaicin damages the lining of the stomach and the internal organs due to its spiciness, but fortunately this theory is not true: On one hand because capsaicin is not acidic or alkaline, it only causes congestion and irritates the terminal nerves; and on the other hand mucin, which can be found in the gastric juice, protects our abdominal wall from various adverse substances and the harmful effects of gastric acid. Furthermore, due to the special extraction process of Paprika Drops, the whole pepper extract can be digested, so it does not cause bowel troubles.
When Paprika Drops is absorbed, it induces thermogenesis! This attribute is a great help for those who are on a diet, because then the resting energy use also increases, i.e. if we consume it, we burn more calories than we would otherwise use.
The third argument for using Paprika Drops during a diet is that it enhances the oxidation of fatty acid (“fat burning”) with the help of the so-called UCP proteins.
*Paprika Drops and happiness
To balance the effect of capsaicin in Paprika Drops (feeling it hot), the human body releases endorphins. According to the present status of science, this compound group is responsible for the development of happiness, joy and satisfaction.
*Paprika Drops and health:
The whole pepper extract is the heart and soul of Paprika Drops. Based on research, pepper extract successfully decreased the level of cholesterol and triglyceride in the haemogram of the test participants. This is of incredibly great importance because diseases related to the circulatory system are the leading causes for death in Hungary as well.
In addition, Australian researchers published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2006 that in the case of the examined people the same dish triggered a smaller insulin response than the dish without pepper extract. Excessive insulin response is the first step towards the development of diabetes type two!
How does Paprika Drops work?
The power of Paprika Drops lies in the whole pepper extract and more precisely in the molecule called capsaicin (8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide). This substance makes pepper hot. The alkaloid content is extracted from pepper with a special extraction process. This process is performed in the most modern food industry laboratories according to the most severe international standards and regulations. Due to this precision, the flavour of Paprika Drops, which can only be felt for a few moments as it recalls the memory of the perfect pepper smell, and its strength are permanent. The content of every bottle has 100% the same quality, so those who become fond of the product will always be granted the same quality and experience. For all these reasons, Paprika Drops is the most precisely portionable product! Furthermore, due to its cutting-edge technology, this oil content could be merged into a water solution without chemical materials (emulsifiers). Paprika Drops is therefore currently unique in Hungary and all over the world as well!
The role of alcohol is to preserve the product and to trasnferthe pepper extract, which dissolves in fat, into the water solution. This way it does not build a film layer on the tongue on the taste buds, so if we have accidentally overseasoned our dish, a glass of delicious drink will immediately temper the hotness; we do not have to be afraid that the hot and burning feeling will not cease until the end of the meal.
Although Paprika Drops contains alcohol, it does not prevent anybody from driving, as an average consumer will add only 2 drops into a plate of food. The alcohol immediately evaporates, but the amount which can be consumed by a person with Paprika Drops cannot be detected anyway (for example 83 drops of Paprika Drops should be consumed to “drink” as much alcohol as it can be found in a Diana alcohol-filled candy). Paprika Drops does not contain oils, so it does not cause digestion, stomach and bowel problems, because all these can be traced back to the fact that capsaicin could not be digested because our body could not cut the oil drops in the course of the digestion.
Suggested application
Add one drop to one plate of food. Taste it and carefully increase the portion as needed. Use it for baking or cooking. It does not lose its hotness due to high temperature. You can bake your pizza so that every part of it will be hot, but if you want to eat only one hot slice, sprinkle 1-2 drops on it subsequently. It is excellent for the preparation of marinades, sauces and salads. You can use it for pickling, or you can make vegetables hotter while allowing them to keep their own flavour. You can use it for preparing fillings or a hot salami without the use of paprika. 🙂 Use your imagination and discover all the options for applying it!
Storage and durability of Paprika Drops:
Between -40°C and +40°C, store it carefully out of the reach of children! A higher temperature might cause excessive pressure in the bottle and Paprika Drops might spill out when opening it. It preserves its quality for an unlimited time in unopened packaging. It is suggested to use it within one year after the opening of the bottle. The product does not go off after one year, but it loses the usual rate of enjoyment. The intelligent packaging protects Paprika Drops in 3 areas as well: the brown bottle protects the liquid from the harmful effects of sunlight and it prevents the product from becoming rancid; in addition to its original role, alcohol prevents the proliferation of bacteria and mould; and the drip dispenser excludes the possibility of cross-contamination because the other parts of Paprika Drops do not touch anything this way!
The aim of Paprika Drops:
It should receive a place on the table which is worthy of its quality: next to salt, pepper and the separately packed toothpickers. Nowadays we are not happy to see the old, opened salt and pepper holder which some people touch with their hands… and we do not welcome toothpickers kept in one holder without separate packaging, where it is only possible to grab one which was touched by several other people before. Paprika Drops is more than a product! Paprika Drops is an innovative service for the development of gastronomy and hygiene culture.
*According to folk medicine.