The ghost chili is rated at more than 1 million Scoville heat units (SHUs).

The world's hottest pepper, the Trinidad Scorpion Maruga, rates at two million Scoville heat units.

— Chilli heat is measured in Scoville Heat Units (SHU).

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.

The amount of capsaicin in hot peppers varies significantly between varieties, and is measured in Scoville heat units (SHU).

For starters, as Blum points out, police-grade pepper spray gets 5,300,000 Scoville heat units on the Scoville scale of pepper hotness.

Scoville heat units (SHU) on the Scoville scale go from zero to a massive 16 million (Trinidad Moruga is 2 million).

The amount varies very significantly by variety, and is measured in Scoville heat units (SHU), ranging from the mild bell pepper to the scorching Habanero chile.

The power of peppers is measured in Scoville Heat Units, named for a Parke-Davis pharmacologist, Wilbur Scoville, who devised the scale in 1912.

The amount present is measured in Scoville Heat Units (SHU); pure capsaicin is an explosive 16million SHU.

The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion was measured at more than 1.2 million Scoville Heat Units, while the second-hottest pepper, Chocolate 7-pot, was found to have nearly 1.17 million.

Chilli gets its heat from capsaicin, and heat is measured in Scoville heat units (SHU), named for Wilbur Scoville, a scientist who tried to quantify a chilli’s bite.

The Polash Restaurant in Shoebury has made the Polash Meltdown - which measures more than 1 million on the Scoville Heat Units scale - to celebrate its 30th birthday.

The heat in chilli peppers is measured in Scoville Heat Units (SHU), the official heat scale developed by Wilbur Scoville in 1912 which measures parts per million of capsaicin.

The federal government of the United States makes no mention of SHU (Scoville heat units) or OC in their requirements, only CRC (only for Bear Attack Deterrent Sprays).

Bhut Jolokia earned Guinness World Records’ recognition as the world’s hottest chilli following tests to measure its Scoville Heat Units (SHUs) - which measure active compounds to determine chilli peppers' heat .

And no one who learns about Scoville Heat Units, or SHUs, which “tell you how much sugar water needs to be added to a ground-up pepper until its heat can’t be tasted,” will ever again insist that jalapeños are spicy.

Yet, at more than a million Scoville heat units - the Scoville scale, developed by the pharmacist Wilbur Scoville in 1912, measures the pungency of foods - the bhut jolokia is at least 462,400 SHU short of being the world's hottest chili pepper.

The degree of heat found within a food is often measured on the subjective Scoville scale.

Something called the Scoville scale measures a pepper's heat.

The hotter the pepper, the more water required, and the higher its score on what is now called the Scoville scale.

Cubanellle peppers generally measure in about 1000 on the scoville scale.

It is now standardized as the Scoville scale.

(It rates around two million units on the Scoville scale, the measure of spicy heat.

The seemingly subjective perceived heat of hot sauces can be measured by the Scoville scale.

The restaurant is known for its chicken wing hot sauce flavors, which are depicted on the Scoville scale.

You can test how hot a hot pepper can be by using the Scoville scale.

Smithsonian: Everything you were afraid to ask about the Scoville scale, that measure of fiery heat.

A measurement called the Scoville scale has been created to describe the hotness of peppers and other foods.

Measurements of pepper spiciness on the Scoville scale depend upon an organoleptic test.

Chillis are graded according to the 'Scoville scale'.

So there's a scale, the Scoville scale, that we chili-fanciers use to talk about how spicy a pepper is.

The pimiento has one of the lowest Scoville scale ratings of any chili pepper.

Refer to the Scoville scale for a comparison of pepper spray to other sources of capsaicin.

The Scoville Scale measures the hotness of peppers.

This pepper attains only a maximum grade of 4,000 on the Scoville scale and is therefore considered only mildly hot.

Scoville scale, a measurement of the pungency ("spicy heat") of a chili pepper.

The flavour of the Peppadew fruit is sweet, with mild heat of around 1200 on the Scoville scale.

The Scoville scale measures the pungency of chili peppers, as defined by the amount of capsaicin they contain.

Wilbur Scoville devises the Scoville scale for measuring the heat of peppers.

During a live show on 10 August 2014, Stefan was forced to leave the stage after chili tasting on various levels of the Scoville scale.

The Scoville scale, a sensory measurement of pungency agreed upon by a trained panel of tasters, assigns heat units to the peppers.

The Aleppo pepper has a moderate heat level of about 10,000 on the Scoville scale, with some fruitiness and mild, cumin-like undertones.