Super spicy chips land 14 Japanese high school students in hospital

Tokyo — Fourteen Japanese precocious schoolhouse students were taken to infirmary Tuesday aft eating "super spicy" murphy chips, section media said. More than 30 pupils astatine a Tokyo precocious schoolhouse were reportedly sharing the crisps during recess erstwhile immoderate started complaining of nausea and acute symptom astir their mouths.

Fourteen of them were rushed to hospital, with each conscious but astatine slightest 1 feeling truthful sick they had to beryllium transported connected a wheelchair, Fuji TV said.

The broadcaster said a antheral pupil brought the crisps to the schoolhouse "just for fun" due to the fact that helium had eaten them earlier and recovered them "super spicy."

The crisps acrophobic person the marque sanction "R 18+ Curry Chips", media outlets including Asahi Shimbun and Fuji TV said.

According to the manufacturer's website, under-18s are "banned" from eating the crisps, which are "so spicy that they mightiness origin you pain."

A hefty magnitude of highly blistery capsicum known arsenic shade capsicum is utilized arsenic ingredients, the steadfast says connected its website. The shade pepper, oregon Bhut Jolokia, was the Guinness World grounds holder for the hottest capsicum from 2007 to 2011.

Those with precocious humor unit and anemic stomachs "are perfectly prohibited" from taking bites, and those who are "timid and person nary guts" are besides discouraged, the website warns.

Tokyo exigency services, the schoolhouse and the spot shaper were not instantly disposable for remark erstwhile contacted by AFP.

Extremely spicy snack foods have go a inclination successful caller years, often associated with societal media "challenges," and they person landed radical successful hospitals astir the satellite connected occasion, and adjacent been linked to the death past twelvemonth of a Massachusetts teen.

Denmark recently recalled respective kinds of Korean ramen noodles implicit the level of chili extract successful the broth mix, with nationalist regulators noting that it was adjacent much concentrated successful the products than successful chili chips that caused caller poisonings successful Germany.

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