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The Naga Morich, with around 1 million SHU, [ 2] is primarily grown in India and Bangladesh. 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.
Wilbur Lincoln Scoville (January 22, 1865 – March 10, 1942) was an American pharmacist best known for his creation of the "Scoville Organoleptic Test", now standardized as the Scoville scale. He devised the test and scale in 1912 while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company to measure pungency , "spiciness" or "capsaicin ...
Northeast India (especially in Assam, Manipur and Nagaland) [ 1] Heat. Exceptionally hot. Scoville scale. 1,001,304 SHU. The ghost pepper, [ 2][ 3] also known as bhüt jolokia ( { {lit.'Ghost pepper' in Assamese [ 4] ), is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in Northeast India. [ 5][ 6] It is a hybrid of Capsicum chinense and ...
Capsicum frutescens. The cayenne pepper is a type of Capsicum annuum. It is usually a hot chili pepper used to flavor dishes. Cayenne peppers are a group of tapering, 10 to 25 cm long, generally skinny, mostly red-colored peppers, often with a curved tip and somewhat rippled skin, which hang from the bush as opposed to growing upright.
Korea. Heat. Low. Scoville scale. 1,500 SHU. Korean chili peppers or Korean hot peppers, also known as Korean red, [ 1] Korean dark green, [ 2] or Korean long green[ 3] peppers according to color (ripening stages), are medium-sized chili peppers of the species Capsicum annuum. The chili pepper is long, slender and mild in flavor and spice.
Hottest chili pepper. Mature Carolina Reaper, listed by Guinness as the hottest chili pepper from 2017-2023. Amongst growers in the US, the UK, and Australia, there has been a competition since the 1990s to grow the hottest chili pepper. Chili pepper species and cultivars registering over 1,000,000 Scoville Heat units (SHU) are called "super-hots".
New Mexico. Heat. Hot. Scoville scale. 0–100,000 [ 2] SHU. New Mexico chile or New Mexican chile (Scientific name: Capsicum annuum 'New Mexico Group'; Spanish: chile de Nuevo México, [ 3] chile del norte) [ 4] is a cultivar group [ 5] of the chile pepper from the US state of New Mexico, first grown by Pueblo and Hispano communities ...
New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute will host "The Science of Spice," teaching guests about the Scoville scale that measures the level of spice or heat in peppers.