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Chili peppers of varied colours and sizes: green bird's eye, yellow Madame Jeanette, red cayenne. Chili peppers, also spelled chile or chilli (from Classical Nahuatl chīlli [ˈt͡ʃiːlːi] ⓘ), are varieties of berry-fruit plants from the genus Capsicum, which are members of the nightshade family Solanaceae, cultivated for their pungency.
Capsicum baccatum (Spanish: ají) is a member of the genus Capsicum, and is one of the five domesticated chili pepper species. The fruit tends to be very pungent, and registers 30,000 to 50,000 on the Scoville heat unit scale.
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.
This measurement is the highest dilution of a chili pepper extract at which heat can be detected by a taste panel." [ 5 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] A weakness of the Scoville organoleptic test is its imprecision due to human subjectivity, depending on the taster's palate and number of mouth heat receptors , which vary widely among subjects.
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).
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 ...