Have you ever seen a chili pepper that looks like a “palm”? In the mountains and fields of Yunnan, a peculiarly shaped “palm chili” has quietly gained popularity. Its fruits stretch upward with distinct “fingers”, just like tiny flaming palms.

With a Scoville Heat Unit (SHU) as high as 800,000 to 1,000,000, one bite will make you chug milk nonstop for the rest of the day! Capsaicin is only soluble in fat, so only milk can effectively relieve the spiciness, while water and porridge have little effect. Yet this extremely spicy “shuanshuan la” is a money-making crop that farmers are scrambling to grow.

Why Is Yunnan Suitable for Planting This Chili?

Intense ultraviolet radiation and large diurnal temperature variations — Yunnan’s natural endowments have created the industrial chili industry’s advantage of “combining aroma and spiciness”.

Growers can earn a profit of nearly 10,000 yuan per mu. With the full-chain model of “guaranteed minimum purchase and processing and conversion”, the small chili has turned into a “golden nugget”, making the industry prosperous and the villagers wealthy.

Industrial chili is a high-quality raw material for extracting capsaicin and oleoresin capsicum. The “24-hour delivery from field to factory” ensures controllable sources and traceable quality.

Yunnan has proven with a single chili that small specialty products can also support a large industry, and the future of the countryside lies in these clusters of fiery red “palms”.

Jindao Capsaicin Technology has focused on the full industrial chain of industrial chili for many years, and has deployed planting bases in three core producing areas: Yunnan, Hainan and Guangxi, with its own source factory. Its variety “Jindao No.1” features high spiciness and stable batch quality. Its products range from dried chili raw materials, devil chili powder, super spicy fresh chili sauce to oil-soluble/water-soluble oleoresin capsicum, capsaicin, and chili meal. In general, Jindao Capsaicin covers the entire chain of industrial chili from planting to deep processing, with customizable spiciness specifications, and provides stable spiciness solutions for customers in food processing, hot pot base, spicy strip seasoning, and catering chain industries.

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