I found an interesting article on the Yahoo site about the world's spiciest chili pepper: the Trinidad Moruga Scorprion! The exotic-sounding name itself already evokes fear and awe; take note that this frightening baby packs a mean wallop of 1,200,000 units in the Scoville heat scale (used to measure spiciness or the amount of capsaicin present in the pepper).
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| Photo from the New Mexico State University's Chili Pepper Institute |
I checked out the equivalent pepper power of this 1.2 million rating and I found out that this is the same amount of capsaicin contained in a can of pepper-spray used by law enforcement agencies! Can you imagine that inside your mouth?
If the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion would be compared on the Scoville heat scale shown above, then it would be way past the heat generated by the Habanero and Thai varieties, which go for only 500,000 units on the scale! So would you like to try some?
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