Spicy food fans will love today’s special Google doodle as it is a fun animated game that marks Wilbur Scoville, the American pharmacist who developed a scale for measuring the heat of peppers.

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 ...

Stars twinkle, earthquakes shake and chili peppers burn, all on their own magnitude scales — astronomical, Richter and Scoville, respectively. The first and the last of these scales were based on ...

The hottest chili ever measured rates a whopping 1,569,300 Scoville Heat Units, but what exactly does that mean? Where does the Scoville Scale come from? What exactly does it measure? And how do we ...

When biting into a chili pepper, you expect a fiery sensation on your tongue. This spiciness is detected because of capsaicinoid compounds. But for some peppers, despite high levels of capsaicinoids, ...