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 ...

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 ...

Two mild habanero peppers known as “Notta Hotta” and “Mild Thing” that retain the peppers’ unique fruity and floral ...

It is possible that some things are just too hot. On the Scoville scale, which measures the spiciness of a pepper, a Carolina Reaper pepper is around 1.7 million Scoville Heat Units, while a Naga ...

Myers said, to put them in perspective, these peppers rank at about 500 to 1,000 on the Scoville heat scale. Regular Habanero peppers are between 100,000 and 300,000. He said 1,000 is the ...

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 ...