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SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010
Dear Brandon, The thing that makes hot sauces hot is a chemical in peppers called capsaicin (cap-SAY-i-sin).
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Mr. Scoville was a chemist who worked for the Parke-Davis drug company. He was looking for a way to measure the strength of spicy chemicals in foods and invented the Scoville scale. It’s a way to keep score of the human tongue’s ability to taste capsaicin.
Wilbur Scoville 1865-1942
The hottest pepper is a bhut jolokia at 850,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). That means it is so hot, the human tongue can feel it in a mixture of 1 drop pepper extract to 850,000 drops water. That’s 1 drop of bhut jolokia juice mixed in 11 gallons of water. Pure capsaicin measures 16,000,000 Scoville Heat Units, or detectable down to 1 drop in 211 gallons of water. Hot stuff.
Anaheim Peppers 1,000 SHU
Bhut Jolokia Peppers 850,000 SHU
(this pepper-filled box)
Hottest pepper in the world. It’s grown in northeastern India
Sweet Bell Peppers 0 Scoville heat units (SHU)
Habañero Peppers 500,000 SHU
(this background box)
Pure capsaicin would be a box
more than 32 times the size of this
background box at 16,000,000 SHU.
Pure capsaicin is so hot, the tiniest bit of it on your skin will give you a chemical burn. Smaller amounts inflame your tongue, which to us tastes spicy hot – picante.
Cayenne Pepper 25,000 SHU
Tabasco Peppers 60,000 SHU
Jalapeño Peppers 16,000 SHU
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By Bob Weber Jr.
myQuestion@beakman.com
© 2010 Jok Church—Dist. by Universal Uclick 4-11-10
Dear Beakman,
What makes hot sauces hot?
Brandon Murphy
Newark, New Jersey
P.S. from Jax: Capsaicin is one of the ingredients in body-ache rubs – warming creams you buy to rub into your muscles.
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