Pepper hotness is still routinely expressed in Scoville Heat Units (SHU). On the Scoville scale, rock-bottom is the bell pepper, which isn’t hot at all, and rates an SHU score of 0.

There are super-hot chili varieties. And then there's the sweat-inducing, tear-generating, mouth-on-fire Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. With a name like that, it's not surprising that months of ...

Among 18 patients for whom information was available, 14 reported eating or possibly eating fresh hot peppers, or reported having an item containing fresh hot peppers. “The epidemiologic investigation ...

Exports of hot pepper sauce totalled $4,453,019 in 2019. ... to identify goods made from the Scotch Bonnet pepper and a strategy to facilitate the production of these goods. ...

By finally identifying a mystery starch on ancient kitchen tools, researchers prove humans have been eating hot peppers for at least 6,000 years. Skip to main content. Scientific American.

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The 2021 Nobel Prize in medicine was jointly awarded Monday to two U.S. scientists, including a Brooklyn-born professor who used chili peppers to understand how the human body responds to heat, a ...