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A small, tapered chili widely used in the Caribbean, Brazil, and Portugal: Tabasco: Mexico: 30,000–50,000 SHU: 4 cm (1.6 in) Used in Tabasco sauce. The fruit is only used when it is a particular red color measured with "le petit bâton rouge". [36] Xiao mi la pepper: China: 75,000 SHU: The name xiao mi la literally translates to little rice ...
Pequin (or piquín) pepper (/ p ɪ ˈ k iː n /) is a hot chili pepper cultivar commonly used as a spice. Pequin peppers are hot, often 5–8 times hotter than jalapeños on the Scoville scale (30,000 to 60,000 Units).
Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum, a chili-pepper variety of Capsicum annuum, is native to southern North America and northern South America. [2] Common names include chiltepín, Indian pepper, grove pepper, chiltepe, and chile tepín, as well as turkey, bird’s eye, or simply bird peppers (due to their consumption and spread by wild birds; "unlike humans birds are impervious to the heat of ...
For example, typical fresh chili peppers have a water content around 90%, whereas Tabasco sauce has a water content of 95%. [12] For law-enforcement-grade pepper spray , values from 500,000 up to 5 million SHU have been reported, [ 1 ] [ 13 ] but the actual strength of the spray depends on the dilution. [ 3 ]
Capsicum annuum, commonly known as paprika, chili pepper, red pepper, sweet pepper, jalapeño, cayenne, or bell pepper, [5] is a fruiting plant from the family Solanaceae (nightshades), within the genus Capsicum which is native to the northern regions of South America and to southwestern North America.
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A guajillo chili or guajillo chile or chile guaco (Spanish: chile guajillo) or mirasol chile is a landrace variety of the species Capsicum annuum with a mirasol ("sunflower" or "looking at the sun") chile fruit type.
The Chile de árbol (lit. ' chili from tree ') is a small and potent Mexican chili pepper also known as bird's beak chile and rat's tail chile.These chilis are about 5 to 7.5 cm (2.0 to 3.0 in) long, and 0.65 to 1 cm (0.26 to 0.39 in) in diameter.