While typical red peppers used to make TABASCO brand Pepper Sauce falls around 50,000 Scoville Units, one scorpion pepper can pack a potent punch of roughly 2 million. Culled from the flames of ...

The chart used to determine the pepper's heat ... For example, the Trinidad Scorpion gets a whopping 1.4 million scoville units (SCU), while jalapeño peppers range from 2,500 to 8,000.

It ranges from sweet bell peppers at zero to the mighty Naga Jolokia (ghost pepper) at over 1,000,000 Scoville units! That one is right off the scale! Pure capsaicin rates between 15,000,000 and ...