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Scoville heat units Examples
16,000,000,000 Resiniferatoxin
5,300,000,000 Tinyatoxin
16,000,000 Capsaicin
15,000,000 Dihydrocapsaicin
9,200,000 Nonivamide
9,100,000 Nordihydrocapsaicin
8,600,000 Homocapsaicin, homodihydrocapsaicin
160,000 Shogaol
100,000 Piperine
60,000 Gingerol
16,000 Capsiate
Scoville heat units Examples
1,500,000–3,000,000+ Most law enforcement grade pepper spray,[1][2][a] Trinidad Moruga Scorpion[3], Pepper X,[4] Carolina Reaper,[5] Dragon's Breath[6]
750,000–1,500,000 Naga Viper pepper,[7] Infinity Chilli,[8] Bhut Jolokia chili pepper,[9][10] Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper,[11] Bedfordshire Super Naga[12]
350,000–750,000 Red Savina habanero[13], Chocolate habanero[14]
100,000–350,000 Habanero chili,[15] Scotch bonnet pepper,[15] Datil pepper, Rocoto, Piri Piri Ndungu, Madame Jeanette, Peruvian White Habanero,[16] Jamaican hot pepper,[17] Guyana Wiri Wiri, Fatalii [18]
50,000–100,000 Byadgi chilli, Bird's eye chili (aka. Thai Chili Pepper),[19] Malagueta pepper,[19] Chiltepin pepper, Piri piri (African bird's eye), Pequin pepper,[19]
30,000–50,000 Guntur chilli, Cayenne pepper, Ají pepper,[15] Tabasco pepper, Cumari pepper (Capsicum Chinese), Katara (spicy)
10,000–23,000 Serrano pepper, Peter pepper, Aleppo pepper
3,500–8,000 Espelette pepper, Jalapeño pepper, Chipotle,[15][20] Guajillo pepper, New Mexican varieties of Anaheim pepper,[21] Hungarian wax pepper, Tabasco sauce
1,000–2,500 Anaheim pepper, Poblano pepper, Rocotillo pepper, Peppadew
100–900 Pimento, Peperoncini, Banana pepper
0-100 Bell pepper, Cubanelle, Aji dulce
  1. ^ "Chemical hazards in law enforcement". The Police Policy Studies Council. Retrieved 2009-02-09. Most law enforcement sprays have a pungency of 500,000 to 2 million SHU. One brand has sprays with 5.3 million SHU.
  2. ^ "The Truth About Defensive Spray Heat". Sabre red. Sabre Red = 10% OC @ 2,000,000 Scoville Heat Units. Thus, 90% of the formulation dilutes the 2,000,000 SHUs creating a Scoville Content of 200,000.
  3. ^ "Chile experts identify Trinidad Moruga Scorpion as world's hottest". UK: The Daily Telegraph. 2012-02-16.
  4. ^ Mike Hultquist (23 February 2018). "Pepper X – Latest News and Information". Chili Pepper Madness. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  5. ^ Hallock, Betty (December 26, 2013). "World's hottest pepper hits 2.2 million Scoville heat units". Los Angeles Times.
  6. ^ Shanika Gunaratna (22 May 2017). "The hottest pepper in the world? Beware the 'Dragon's Breath'". CBS news.
  7. ^ Dykes, Brett Michael (3 December 2010). "World's hottest pepper is 'hot enough to strip paint'". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  8. ^ "Grantham's Infinity chilli named hottest in world". News. BBC. 2011-02-18.
  9. ^ Shaline L. Lopez (2007). "NMSU is home to the world's hottest chile pepper". Archived from the original on 2007-02-19. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
  10. ^ AP (23 February 2007). "World's hottest chili pepper a mouthful for prof". CNN. Archived from the original on 2007-03-22.
  11. ^ Matthew Da Silva, "Aussies grow world's hottest chilli", Australian Geographic, 12 April 2011
  12. ^ "UK's hottest commercially grown chilli pepper goes on sale".
  13. ^ "World's hottest chile pepper discovered". American Society for Horticultural Science. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
  14. ^ "Chile Pepper Heat Scoville Scale". Homecooking.about.com. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  15. ^ a b c d "Chile Pepper Heat Scoville Scale". About. Retrieved 2006-09-25.
  16. ^ "Habanero White". Chile man. Retrieved Sep 21, 2011.
  17. ^ "The Scoville Scale". Happy stove.
  18. ^ Scoville Food Institute, Periodic Table of Scoville Units.
  19. ^ a b c "Scoville Scale Chart for Hot Sauce and Hot Peppers". Scott Roberts. Retrieved 2008-11-19.
  20. ^ Scoville hot sauce heat scale, Hot sauce
  21. ^ "Anaheim Pepper" (PDF). Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University. 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-22. [dead link]


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