In 1912, chemist Wilbur Scoville developed a method to measure the heat level of chile peppers. The test is named after him, the "Scoville Organoleptic Test." In the original test, Wilbur blended ...

Scoville heat units represent the amount of times the mixture has to be diluted until a burning sensation is no longer present. Mild bell peppers, for reference, have 0 Scoville heat units ...

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.

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Now, researchers reporting in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry have identified three compounds that lessen peppers’ pungency. These results challenge the reliability of the century-old ...

And the pepper was grown with the help of a Michigan-grown pepper. Just how hot is it? Called Pepper X, the pepper’s rating averages 2,693,000 million units on the Scoville scale measured as ...

Pepperoncini and their cousins, golden Greek, are sweet peppers with thin flesh. They turn wrinkly and a bit sour when pickled, and they’re typically fairly mild. At 100 to 500 on the Scoville ...