you say you like curry, do you understand how the different chemicals recact to make the curry? (I love curry too)

Question: you say you like curry, do you understand how the different chemicals recact to make the curry? (I love curry too)
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Asked by jazzybee to Sarah on 12 Mar 2015.
- Sarah Kirk answered on 12 Mar 2015:
  
  Curry is awesome 😀 The chemistry of cooking is actually very complicated compared to the stuff I do! There are thousands of different chemicals in food and they all mix and react together in a complicated way which we don’t always understand very well!
  
  We do know a few things though – certain chemicals are responsible for certain flavours and colours. The molecule that makes things spicy is called capsaicin, and the molecule that makes tumeric so yellow is curcumin. I like my curry with lots of capsaicin! 😛

Question: you say you like curry, do you understand how the different chemicals recact to make the curry? (I love curry too)