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Peppers Are a Hot Diet Food
By on September 27, 2011  |  Comments 0

Peppers Are a Hot Diet Food

If you want to lose weight, eating hot peppers as part of your diet can help, says David Ashley, founder and President of Ashley Food Company. Studies have shown that hot peppers can curb appetite, burn fat, and inhibit fat cell growth. Ashley Food Company’s all-natural products, such as Envy, are high in hot pepper content, delivering a good dose of the diet benefits of peppers.

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By on September 14, 2011  |  Comments 0

Health Benefits of Hot Peppers Should be Better Known

Ashley Food Company founder and President David Ashley thinks more people ought to be aware of the health benefits of consuming food products made with hot peppers, from lowering cholesterol to reducing blood pressure to possibly even destroying cancer cells. Ashley Food Company’s all-natural products such as Boomslang are high in hot pepper content, delivering all the benefits of hot peppers.

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BBQ Spells Success for MA Entrepreneur

Twenty years in business and 26 sauces later, Ashley Food Company, Inc. continues to beat the odds. The secret to success for entrepreneur David “Mad Dog” Ashley lies in giving customers a reason to come back for more. The original Mad Dog all natural bbq sauce kicked the company into high gear 20 year ago. Its popularity spawned the expansion into a whole family of Mad Dog sauces over the next 5, 10 and 15 year milestones.

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Sudbury firm gets fired up about its hot sauces
By on February 01, 2010  |  Comments 0

Sudbury firm gets fired up about its hot sauces

Created by David “Mad Dog” Ashley, the sauce lays claim to being the world’s hottest, boasting a tongue-singeing 750,000 scoville heat units. These units indicate the amount of capsaicin present in a sauce with capsaicin being the heat-producing component in chili peppers.

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Ghost Pepper Sauce Gives Consumers True Taste of World’s Hottest Pepper
By on November 10, 2009  |  Comments 0

Ghost Pepper Sauce Gives Consumers True Taste of World’s Hottest Pepper

Ashley Food Co., creator of the world’s hottest Mad Dog 357 Hot Sauce, has introduced a hot new edition: Mad Dog 357 Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce — a blend that’s bound to warm the hearts and obliterate the tongues of hot sauce collectors everywhere.

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Jakes Dixie Roadhouse hosts wing contest
By on November 04, 2009  |  Comments 0

Jakes Dixie Roadhouse hosts wing contest

Gretchen Vogel pounds her fists on the table and stamps her feet on the floor. Tears fall from her eyes and sweat drips on her brow.

Vogel is being tortured, but the pain is self-inflicted as the Somerville resident is competing in a hot wing eating contest at Jake’s Dixie Roadhouse in Waltham.

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When you’re hot, you’re hot
By on October 10, 2008  |  Comments 0

When you’re hot, you’re hot

Walk beyond the computers and fax machines in the Sudbury office of David Ashley and you’ll find a rudimentary science lab. Turmeric, clove, beer buds, Serrano pepper powder, and extracts such as natural butter and mango fill the shelves of an old metal cabinet. Thirteen glass bottles in varying shades of orange are lined up across a tabletop, the result of gastronomic tinkering that may soon wind up on supermarket shelves across the nation.

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David Ashley brings the heat to cooking
By on June 27, 2007  |  Comments 0

David Ashley brings the heat to cooking

Christian Science Monitor – June 27, 2007 By Jennifer Wolcott | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Never before have I tasted hot sauce off a toothpick. But when my mouth caught fire 10 seconds after tasting “Inferno,” one of the hottest of hot sauces in the world, I understood why David Ashley, maker of [...]

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    Go green with Envy - Jalepeno Hot Sauce

    Some say envy is a sin. At Ashley Foods, we think the real sin is not savoring every moment of it. Especially when we¹re talking about Mad Dog Envy. Enjoy this unique fiery green sauce and its most special ingredient, a rare jalapeno extract ‹ the kind that concentrates the fire found in one of the most popular peppers around.

    Envy is just one more example of our more than 20 years devotion to creating all natural, mouth watering, and award-winning hot sauces, extreme hot sauces, pepper extracts, and BBQ sauces. The reason is simple. We love making products that make food taste great. And we're passionate about making some of the hottest sauces and extracts on the planet.

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Peppers Are a Hot Diet Food

Peppers Are a Hot Diet Food

If you want to lose weight, eating hot peppers as part of your diet can help, says David Ashley, founder and President of Ashley Food Company. Studies have shown that hot peppers can curb appetite, burn fat, and inhibit fat cell growth. Ashley Food Company’s all-natural products, such as Envy, are high in hot pepper content, delivering a good dose of the diet benefits of peppers.

Health Benefits of Hot Peppers Should be Better Known

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Ashley Food Company founder and President David Ashley thinks more people ought to be aware of the health benefits of consuming food products made with hot peppers, from lowering cholesterol to reducing blood pressure to possibly even destroying cancer cells. Ashley Food Company’s all-natural products such as Boomslang are high in hot pepper content, delivering all the benefits of hot peppers.

Chili Heath Benefits

Brigham & Women’s Releases Study

Brigham & Women’s Releases Study

On Monday, May 8th, 2012, Brigham & Women’s hospital of Boston, Massachusetts announced a study on the power of capsaicin. Found in hot peppers, capsaicin is believed to help with weight loss. Doctors would like to use the power of this natural element to treat obesity and use as therapy for diabetic patients. At Ashley Food Company, we have provided alerts to our customers about the benefits of hot peppers and capsaicin.

Spicy Compound May Boost Heart Health

Spicy Compound May Boost Heart Health

Some people can’t get enough of the painful pleasure of spicy foods. Now, new research on hamsters suggests that those who like it hot may get some added heart-health benefits from capsaicinoids, the compounds that give chili peppers from jalepenos to habaneros their kick.

Scientists from the Chinese University of Hong Kong studied how capsaicinoids — capsaicin and its chemical relatives — affected the blood vessels of hamsters. Researchers fed hamsters diets high in cholesterol, and spiced up the food for some groups of the animals with varying levels of capsaicinoids.

Press Releases

Peppers Are a Hot Diet Food

Peppers Are a Hot Diet Food

If you want to lose weight, eating hot peppers as part of your diet can help, says David Ashley, founder and President of Ashley Food Company. Studies have shown that hot peppers can curb appetite, burn fat, and inhibit fat cell growth. Ashley Food Company’s all-natural products, such as Envy, are high in hot pepper content, delivering a good dose of the diet benefits of peppers.

Health Benefits of Hot Peppers Should be Better Known

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Ashley Food Company founder and President David Ashley thinks more people ought to be aware of the health benefits of consuming food products made with hot peppers, from lowering cholesterol to reducing blood pressure to possibly even destroying cancer cells. Ashley Food Company’s all-natural products such as Boomslang are high in hot pepper content, delivering all the benefits of hot peppers.

Recipes

Aka Bistro’s Razor Clam & Surf Clam Ceviche

Aka Bistro’s Razor Clam & Surf Clam Ceviche

For those of us who enjoy shell fish, try our famous Aka Bistro’s Razor Clam & Surf Clam Ceviche.

Mad Dog Tacos Recipe

Mad Dog Tacos Recipe

Meat meets spice. Why have a regular taco night, when you can have a mad dog taco night?