The hottest individual Carolina Reaper came in at 2.2 million Scoville heat units. Last year, New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute named the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion the hottest ...

For example, the Trinidad Scorpion gets a whopping 1.4 million scoville units (SCU), while jalapeño peppers range from 2,500 to 8,000. Scoville ratings are determined by the Scoville organoleptic ...

Mike Simpson has been a gardener since the 70s. Over the next 10 years, his vegetable garden became a hot pepper garden.

It is a golf ball-sized pepper, which mean heat topped ... according to The AP. The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion averaged 1.2 million Scoville Heat Units and some some individual fruits measuring ...

The golf ball-sized pepper scored the highest among a handful of chile breeds reputed to be among the hottest in the world. Its mean heat topped more than 1.2 million units on the Scoville heat ...

Google’s drive to celebrate an ever-increasing number of notable figures in history continues with a bang today (22 January) with pepper supremo Wilbur Scoville’s 151st birthday celebrated ...

a Bhut jolokia or a ghost pepper—which was the first pepper to score over a million Scoville heat units— and a Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper, which scores over two million heat units.

Scoville heat units represent the amount of times the mixture has to be diluted until a burning sensation is no longer present. Mild bell peppers, for reference, have 0 Scoville heat units ...

Guinness World Records crowned Pepper X the world's hottest pepper. It measures in at a blistering 2.693 million Scoville Heat Units. It dethroned the previous winner, the Carolina Reaper.