In 1912 pharmacist Wilbur Scoville invented the Scoville Scale, which measures how many times capsaicin ... The only way to ...

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I went up the ranks of the Scoville scale, dosing myself with Thai bird chiles, Scotch bonnets, habaneros, Trinidad Moruga scorpions and bhut jolokias, also known as ghost peppers, whose intensity ...

Jim Myers works in vegetable breeding and genetics at OSU. On a recent visit to the experimental farm where the peppers were ...

Are you Team Spice, or do you run from anything remotely hot in your food? The intensity of your reaction may be all in your head, according to a new study.

Pepper pungency or heat is ranked on the Scoville scale. Habaneros are typically between 100,000 to ... At that event, Myers ...

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