If you’re on the lookout for ingredients to stir into a homemade salsa that won’t fry your tongue, you may be in luck next year.

That’s closer to bell pepper on the scale than a regular habanero, which can reach between 100,000 to 300,000 on the Scoville chart, Myers said. He’s actually been working on these varieties ...

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These spicy peppers average about 1 million Heat Units on the Scoville Scale, a measurement of chili spiciness named for Wilbur Scoville, the American pharmacologist who created it. For context ...

When a new strain of Pepper X — whose 2.69 million Scoville heat units is more than 500 times a jalapeno pepper — lands on the tongue, a more intense bodily reaction takes over. It starts with ...

Researchers at Oregon State University have created two new habanero peppers that are mild. The new varieties are called ‘Notta Hotta’ and ‘Mild Thing.’ OSU says they retain the fruity and floral ...

The amount of capsicum in a type of pepper determines how hot the taste will be. The Scoville Heat Units (SHU) scale was developed in 1912 by William Scoville to rate the preserved heat of hot ...

Two mild habanero peppers known as “Notta Hotta” and “Mild Thing” that retain the peppers’ unique fruity and floral fragrances and flavors but have lower heat levels are being released by Oregon State ...