Here’s everything you need to know about the world’s most famous heat ranking system before you add chiles to your next meal. Audrey Morgan is an associate food editor at Food & Wine with over seven ...

With Zest Fest on the horizon, my eyes are a little more attuned to chili-related news. A post on the Smithsonian Food and Think blog seems a perfect primer to the upcoming festivities. Many know that ...

The Scoville Scale is a measurement chart used to rate the heat of peppers or other spicy foods. It can also can have a useful application for measuring cybersecurity threats. Cyber-threats are also ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago, an American pharmacist named Wilbur Scoville developed a scale to measure the intensity of a pepper's burn. The scale - as you can see on the widely used chart to the left - ...

Jan. 22 would be the 151st birthday of Wilbur Scoville, the American pharmacist who devised the standard measurement of a pepper’s spiciness. Google is honoring him with an interactive Google Doodle ...

Google Doodle honors Wilbur Scoville, the creator of the Scoville scale that measures the spicy heat of chili peppers. A Google Doodle is a special but temporary alteration to the Google logo on the ...

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, ...