For more than a hundred years, the Scoville Heat Unit (SHU) scale has been the go-to method for rating chili pepper heat. SHU scores are based on how much capsaicin and dihydrocapsaicin a pepper ...

There is a line of reasoning that suggests eating something hot on a warm summer day makes it seem cooler. In this case "hot" ...

Pepper spray has a very high score on the Scoville heat units (SHU) scale, which measures the “heat” of peppers. On the Scoville scale: a bell pepper measures 0 SHU a jalapeño pepper scores ...

The suppressing compounds reduced perceived heat by 0.7 to ... explain why some peppers feel milder than others despite high capsaicin levels—and why the Scoville scale doesn’t always reflect ...

Ohio State researchers discovered three natural compounds—capsianoside I, roseoside, and gingerglycolipid A—that reduce the perceived spiciness of chili peppers without altering their capsaicin levels ...

A little heat from this fiery spice might be just what your applesauce needs to go from boring to beloved. (And no, it's not ...

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Traditionally, their overall pungency has been calculated based on each pepper’s concentration of these two compounds, based on what are known as Scoville Heat Units (SHU), a standard unit of ...

Ed Currie invented the Carolina Reaper and Pepper X. He has many secret farms across South Carolina where he grows the hottest peppers in the world.

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