Try cooking with ginger – a complex and versatile ingredient

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The subtle chemical complexity of ginger makes it an astonishingly flexible addition to both sweet and savoury food, finds Sam Wong

. This month, I have learned how to use an unexpected property of ginger to create a delicious dessert.

Ginger’s prickly flavour comes from a compound called gingerol, which has a similar structure to capsaicin, the molecule that . It binds to the same receptor protein, TRPV1, in nerve endings that stimulates the sensation of heat and pain, albeit more mildly.Continue reading

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