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 ...

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.

The chart used to determine the pepper's heat, ... For example, the Trinidad Scorpion gets a whopping 1.4 million scoville units (SCU), while jalapeño peppers range from 2,500 to 8,000.

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 ...

The Scoville Scale is a measurement chart used to rate the heat of peppers or other spicy foods.It can also can have a useful application for measuring cybersecurity threats. Cyber-threats are ...

8 Scorpion peppers: Once considered the hottest chili in the world, the scorpion pepper's Scoville heat units are off of the charts. (Today, the hottest pepper is the Carolina Reaper.) If you can ...

One hundred years ago, an American pharmacist named Wilbur Scoville developed a scale to measure the intensity of a pepper’s burn. The scale – as you can see on the widely used chart to the ...

The reason pepper-spray ends up on the Scoville chart is that – you probably guessed this - it’s literally derived from pepper chemistry, the compounds that make habaneros so much more ...

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).

The reason pepper-spray ends up on the Scoville chart is that – you probably guessed this – it’s literally derived from pepper chemistry, the compounds that make habaneros so much more ...