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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.
This superhot hit an average of more than 1.2 million Scoville heat units, making it many thousand times hotter than the jalapeno, which hits about 5,000 units. Scoville units measure the amount of spicy heat in chili peppers based on the amount of capsaicin, a compound that makes the peppers, well, hot. So far, Barrus has dared to eat six of these mouth-on-fire peppers, including four in one sitting, which he says is the most difficult challenge I have ever done..