Scoville then added sugar water to the mix, diluting it enough that he could give it to a group of five tasters. He added ...

For comparison, a habanero pepper typically hits 100,000 Scoville heat units, but Pepper X registers at 2.69 million units. Breeder and grower Ed Currie created both record-breaking peppers.

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.

For reference, jalapeño peppers have a Scoville scale rating (the common measurement of pepper heat) of roughly 6,000 ...

I went up the ranks of the Scoville scale, dosing myself with Thai bird chiles, Scotch bonnets, habaneros, Trinidad Moruga scorpions and bhut jolokias, also known as ghost peppers, whose intensity ...

Pimento peppers are about the size of an orange, and are shaped like a heart (aww). They're slightly higher on the Scoville scale than bell peppers (which, quite literally, have zero Scoville ...

The 2-year-old is the the last of four foals out of 2015-16 Eclipse champion grass mare Tepin, whose death was announced Oct. 5 by O'Brien. Tepin has now produced two group winners from two foals ...