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How Hot Is Hot?

  • February 15, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Pharmacist Wilbur Scoville developed the Scoville Scale to measure the heat of chili peppers, using the human tongue to detect capsaicin (the chemical that makes peppers hot). A bell pepper gets a 0, while some peppers burn in at over a million! Tabasco Sauce scores 2500-5000.

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