Ranked as the Guinness World Record’s hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper peaked at about 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units, the scale used to rank how spicy peppers are.
The chart used to determine the pepper's heat, named the Scoville Scale after its creator, American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville, assigns measurable units of spiciness to various foods. For example ...
Hot peppers’ spicy heat is measured in Scoville heat units ... Green chili and jalapeno peppers are harvested when green. When your gardening season is filled with long, hot days, hot peppers ...