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The Scoville scale is a measurement of pungency (spiciness or "heat") of chili peppers and other substances, recorded in Scoville heat units (SHU). It is based on the concentration of capsaicinoids , among which capsaicin is the predominant component.
Scotch bonnet (also known as Bonney peppers, or Caribbean red peppers) [1] is a variety of chili pepper named for its supposed resemblance to a Scottish tam o' shanter bonnet. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is native to the Americas —a cultivar of Capsicum chinense , which originated in the Amazon Basin , Central and South America .
In British English, the sweet varieties are called "peppers" [12] and the hot varieties "chillies", [13] whereas in Australian English and Indian English, the name "capsicum" is commonly used for bell peppers exclusively and "chilli" is often used to encompass the hotter varieties. The plant is a tender perennial subshrub, with a densely ...
There are thousands of different types of peppers, so how do you choose the right one? To make it even more confusing, one pepper variety may have one name when it's fresh and another when it's ...
Print/export Download as PDF ... Nagabon pepper; Heat: Exceptionally hot: Scoville scale: 750,000 - 800,000 SHU: The nagabon is a cross between a Scotch bonnet and a ...
Before the early 1990s, there were only two peppers which had been measured above 350,000 SHU, the Scotch bonnet and the habanero. [2] California farmer Frank Garcia used a sport of a habanero to develop a new cultivar, the Red Savina ( C. chinense ), [ 3 ] which was measured at 570,000 in 1994.
Adjuma, adjoema, aji umba, or ojemma [2] is a variety of Capsicum chinense chili pepper, originally from Brazil. The fruits are shaped like small bell peppers, colored red or yellow. This pepper is sometimes sold as Madame Jeanette, although that is a different variety.
But this article is about the Scoville scale and should only have some illustrative examples. There is very little news about the Scoville scale. It doesn't need a list of everyone's favorite peppers. It would be like an article on "Climate" constantly being updated every time it rains somewhere. --Wtshymanski 18:22, 16 December 2017 (UTC)