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Pepperoncini contain 500 Scoville units, ranking them low on the pepper scale. Chili peppers. A sweet red bell pepper has a Scoville Heat Unit score of 0. A jalapeno pepper, which has a Scoville score of 8,000. Some cooks use fresh jalapeno peppers to add heat and flavor to chili or other simple dishes.
The chart used to determine the pepper's heat, named the Scoville Scale after its creator, American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville, assigns measurable units of spiciness to various foods. For example, the Trinidad Scorpion gets a whopping 1.4 million scoville units (SCU), while jalapeÃ±o peppers range from 2,500 to 8,000. Scoville ratings are determined by the Scoville organoleptic test. The capsaicin oil (the spicy part) of a pepper is extracted and then incrementally diluted with sugar-water until a panel of five testers can no longer taste the spiciness. Of course, this method opens up the Scoville Scale to human error and variation, as taste changes from person-to-person.