Scoville is a term that's usually thrown around when people are talking about the peppers that really pack heat. No one cares about the Scoville of bell peppers, but when we're talking about the ...

In Texas, we find spice so nice we had to proclaim it twice. The Lone Star State is home to not one but two officially sanctioned chiles. In 1995, the Texas Legislature declared the ubiquitous ...

A new small, yellow-greenish chili pepper that’s taken more than a decade to cultivate has out scaled all others including one from its developer, earning the official title of the hottest chili ...

In 1912, while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company, Wilbur Lincoln Scoville created the "Scoville Organoleptic Test". This subjectively measured the pungency, "spiciness" or "capsaicin ...