Zero means no heat, and a regular jalapeño clocks in at around 5,000 units. The habanero, which held the record about 25 years ago, often exceeds 100,000 units. The chemical in peppers that causes ...

For example, the Trinidad Scorpion gets a whopping 1.4 million scoville units (SCU), while jalapeño peppers range from 2,500 to 8,000. Scoville ratings are determined by the Scoville organoleptic ...