So while many may agree on the rankings given to each pepper on the Scoville scale, it should still be taken as an opinion-based chart and not fact. Read the original article on Chowhound.

Thai chile peppers: 50,000 to 100,000 Habanero: 100,000 to 350,000 Scotch bonnet: 100,000 to 325,000 Ghost pepper: About 1 million . For more Food & Wine news, make sure to sign up for our newsletter!

Excluding bell peppers — technically chiles, but with a Scoville score of zero — the field ranged from relatively mild jalapeños on the low end of the chart to death-defying Trinidad Scorpion ...

Mild bell peppers, for reference, have 0 Scoville heat units, while spicy Thai chiles can range from 50,000 to 100,000 units. The scale increases exponentially, ...

The Scoville Scale has for a long time been the gauge that measures the heat of peppers. At the top of the chart there is a light green Pepper X hot pepper that has 2,693,000 SHU (Scoville Heat Unit).

If you have to dilute one unit of capsaicin-infused alcohol with 10,000 units of sugar water for the pepper’s flavor to be undetectable, that pepper rates 10,000 on the Scoville scale.

Hot peppers aren’t for everyone, but that’s where the Scoville scale comes in handy. The scale is named after American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville, who developed the pepper spiciness test in 1912.