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.

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, ...

Capsaicin is the compound responsible for determining just how hot a variety of chili pepper will be; the higher the capsaicin levels, the hotter the pepper. There are several methods for quantifying ...