Chicken Wing Science | Compact Science

It’s the food most synonymous with Buffalo- chicken wings, in fact the rest of the world calls them Buffalo wings. You may think wings dipped in blue cheese is a match made in heaven but it’s really a match based in science. In this episode of Compact Science we’ll explore the science of wing sauce from the Scoville Scale to capsaicin zero in on how our bodies react when we taste something spicy.
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A production of WNED PBS and the Buffalo Museum of Science.
Host: Sarajane Gomlak-Green
Producer: Christy May
Editor: Christopher Thomas
Animation: Nathen Schneekloth
Videographer: Jim Zinkowski
Sound: Bailey Critoph
Executive in Charge of Production: David C. Rotterman
Music : Licensed from FirstCom Music
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