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Capsaicinoid Inheritance in an Interspecific Hybridization
Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 125(4) -
Capsicums: Innovative Uses of an Ancient Crop
Center for New Crops & Plant ProductsPurdue University -
Evaluation of Genotype, Environment, and Genotype-by Environment…
Euphytica: International Journal of Plant Breeding 111 -
Jewels in the Genome: Pepper Heat
eXtension -
Measuring Chile Pepper Heat
Guide H-237
New Mexico State University -
Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper is the World’s Hottest Measured…
HortTechnology 22(4) -
World’s Hottest Chile Pepper Discovered
ScienceDaily
New Mexico State University -
What’s So Hot About Chili Peppers?
Smithsonian Magazine
Hort Science
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Companies Who Perform High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Scoville Heat Units (SHU) or Heat Testing
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10 Hottest Chile Peppers that the CPI has tested
1. Trinidad Moruga Scorpion (2 Million SHU)
2. Chocolate 7 pot (1.8 Million SHU)
3. Trinidad Scorpion (1.5 Million SHU)
4. Bhut Jolokia (1 Million SHU)
5. Red 7 Pot (780,000 SHU)
6. Chocolate Habanero (700,000 SHU)
7. Red Savina Habanero (500,000 SHU)
8. Scotch Bonnet (350,000 SHU)
9. Orange Habanero (250,000 SHU)
10. Rocoto (175,000 SHU)