If the chain's hottest salsa has been making you sweat more, you're not alone.
may just have changing tastes. The actual reason for the reported mouth-numbing spice seems to fall somewhere in the middle.
Chipotle has confirmed that it did not change how it makes the salsa, but noted that spice levels in the product can vary. "Our recipe for tomatillo red-chili salsa has not changed, however, we use dried red chili peppers sourced seasonally from varying regions that can have a range of different heat levels," Chipotle said in a statement.jalapeño, for example, can register
. That's a potential difference of 5,500 Scoville heat units in the same type of pepper. Per Chipotle's statement, customers shocked by the heat levels in thedried red chili peppers that happen to be hotter than what it used in the past.
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