Read more: 16 Little-Known Facts About Salt Today, the Scoville scale may be an eye-catching way to mark the heat of a pepper, but it's not the most useful way to measure capsaicin in a scientific ...

The chart used to determine the pepper's heat, named the Scoville Scale after its creator, American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville, assigns measurable units of spiciness to various foods. For example ...

In 1912 pharmacist Wilbur Scoville invented the Scoville Scale, which measures how many ... "I was feeling the heat for three and a half hours. Then the cramps came," Mr Currie told the Associated ...

The search giant is commemorating the birthday of Wilbur Scoville, the American pharmacist who created the scale used to measure ... Different peppers have different heat levels depending on ...