Peppers are measured on a heat scaled called Scoville heat units (SHU). On that scale, bell peppers score a 0, poblano peppers contain 1,500 SHU and jalapenos—which we all know for their spice ...

Scoville scale. 100 to 1000 SHU units. It is one of the mild sweet peppers and low on the Scoville scale, where jalapeno's ...

Use the guide below to find out where your favorite chiles fall on the Scoville scale. Scoville scale levels. Mild (0 to 2,000 SHU) Bell pepper, Ancho poblano, Lombardo, Anaheim, Golden Greek ...

It ranges from sweet bell peppers at zero to the mighty Naga Jolokia (ghost pepper) at over 1,000,000 Scoville units! That one is right off the scale! Pure capsaicin rates between 15,000,000 and ...

Hot peppers aren’t for everyone, but that’s where the Scoville scale comes in handy. The scale is named after American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville, who developed the pepper spiciness test in 1912.

“The New Food Lover’s Companion” notes that poblanos typically register between 1,000 and 2,000 on the Scoville scale, which measures the heat of a pepper based on the amount of the chemical ...

Bred by Ed Currie, a South Carolina hot pepper grower and owner of PuckerButt Pepper Company, it boasts an average heat level of 2.69 million Scoville heat units.

Comparatively, a poblano pepper is about 1,000 SHU while a jalapeno pepper averages 5,000 SHU. A habanero peppe r, one of the spiciest non-hybrid peppers, is about 100,000 SHU.