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  2. Scoville scale - Wikipedia

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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. [3]

  3. List of capsaicinoids - Wikipedia

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    Structural formula Name Scoville heat units Abbreviation Reference Resiniferatoxin: 16,000,000,000 RTX [2] [3] [4]Tinyatoxin: 5,300,000,000 TTX or TTN [4]Phenylacetylrinvanil

  4. Capsaicin - Wikipedia

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    Capsaicin acts as an antifungal agent in four primary ways. First, capsaicin inhibits the metabolic rate of the cells that make up the fungal biofilm. [81] This inhibits the area and growth rate of the fungus, since the biofilm creates an area where a fungus can grow and adhere to the chili in which capsaicin is present. [82]

  5. Pungency - Wikipedia

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    The Scoville scale measures the pungency of chili peppers, as defined by the amount of capsaicin they contain. A display of spices in Guadeloupe : some pungent, some not Pungency is not considered a taste in the technical sense because it is carried to the brain by a different set of nerves.

  6. Nordihydrocapsaicin - Wikipedia

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    Like capsaicin, it is an irritant. Nordihydrocapsaicin accounts for about 7% of the total capsaicinoids mixture [2] and has about half the pungency of capsaicin. Pure nordihydrocapsaicin is a lipophilic colorless odorless crystalline to waxy solid. On the Scoville scale it has 9,100,000 SHU (Scoville heat units), [1] significantly higher than ...

  7. Dihydrocapsaicin - Wikipedia

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    Dihydrocapsaicin is a capsaicinoid and analog and congener of capsaicin in chili peppers . Like capsaicin, it is an irritant. It accounts for about 22% of the total capsaicinoid mixture [2] and has the same pungency as capsaicin. [1] Pure dihydrocapsaicin is a lipophilic colorless odorless crystalline to waxy compound.

  8. Homocapsaicin - Wikipedia

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    Like capsaicin it is an irritant. Homocapsaicin accounts for about 1% of the total capsaicinoids mixture [2] and has about half the pungency of capsaicin. Pure homocapsaicin is a lipophilic colorless odorless crystalline to waxy compound. On the Scoville scale it has 8,600,000 SHU (Scoville heat units). [1]

  9. Talk:Scoville scale - Wikipedia

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    That final dilution, e.g. R20M is 16 MSCO (or whatever you want pure capsaicin to be). Step 2, Sample: Do a soxhlet extraction of m1 (air?) dried chili powder/flakes (with seeds?), dilute to V1 and find the final solution as in step 1. If your final reference dilution is R20M and your final sample dilution is S10M, then your sample has 16M/20M ...