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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 sweet bell peppers at zero Scoville units to the mighty Naga Jolokia (Ghost Pepper) at over 1,000,000 Scoville units! One part of chile heat per 1,000,000 drops of water is rated at only 1.5 Scoville Units. The substance that makes a chile so hot is called Capsaicin (cap-say-ah-sin). Pure Capsaicin rates between 15,000,000 and 16,000,000 Scoville Units! Today more scientific and accurate methods like Electrochemistry and High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) are used to determine capsaicin levels.