When biting into a chili pepper, you expect a fiery sensation on your tongue. This spiciness is detected because of capsaicinoid compounds. But for some peppers, despite high levels of capsaicinoids, ...

Today's popular Google Doodle game and the latest in the Stay and Play at Home series is a Doodle celebrating Wilbur Scoville, the inventor of the Scoville Scale which is used to measure a pepper's ...

In Texas, we find spice so nice we had to proclaim it twice. The Lone Star State is home to not one but two officially sanctioned chiles. In 1995, the Texas Legislature declared the ubiquitous ...

The heat of various chiles is measured in units on the Scoville scale, developed in 1912 by pharmacologist Wilbur L. Scoville. Here are estimates of how some common chiles measure up (ranges will vary ...

From Wilbur Lincoln Scoville’s lab in 1912 to the set of "Hot Ones" with Kyan Khojandi, the same question persists: how far does the burn go? Behind every fiery bite lies a single ...

What was state of the art in 1912 has mostly fallen by the wayside. Cars have replaced horses. Washing machines have replaced washboards. Air travel, refrigeration and container shipping have ...

When biting into a chili pepper, you expect a fiery sensation on your tongue. This spiciness is detected because of capsaicinoid compounds. But for some peppers, despite high levels of capsaicinoids, ...

Capsaicin is the compound responsible for determining just how hot a variety of chili pepper will be; the higher the capsaicin levels, the hotter the pepper. There are several methods for quantifying ...