It ranges from sweet bell peppers at zero to the mighty Naga Jolokia (ghost pepper) at over 1,000,000 Scoville units! That one is right off the scale! Pure capsaicin rates between 15,000,000 and ...

Use the guide below to find out where your favorite chiles fall on the Scoville scale. Scoville scale levels. Mild (0 to 2,000 SHU) Bell pepper, Ancho poblano, Lombardo, Anaheim, Golden Greek ...

Bred by Ed Currie, a South Carolina hot pepper grower and owner of PuckerButt Pepper Company, it boasts an average heat level of 2.69 million Scoville heat units.

The Scoville scale for measuring heat in peppers was established in 1912. It's high time for an upgrade.

Texas has two official state peppers: jalapeno and chiltepín. While there's a science to measuring chiles' spiciness, it's not as accurate as you might think.

The Scoville scale that we use to measure the spiciness of chili peppers was invented by an early 20th-century pharmacologist ...

Spicy peppers are measured on the Scoville scale, which ranks varieties from 0 (a bell pepper) to over 2 million (Pepper X, a specially created hybrid). Here are some of the hottest.

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.

Pepper X measures an average of 2.693 million Scoville Heat Units. A jalapeño, by comparison, measures just 2,000 to 8,000 SHUs, while a serrano can land between 10,000 and 23,000 SHUs.

It ranges from sweet bell peppers at zero to the mighty Naga Jolokia (ghost pepper) at over 1,000,000 Scoville units! That one is right off the scale! Pure capsaicin rates between 15,000,000 and ...