Editing Scoville scale (section)

===''Capsicum'' peppers===
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''[[Capsicum]]'' [[chili pepper]]s are commonly used to add pungency in [[cuisine]]s worldwide.<ref name=twi/><ref name=guzman/> The range of pepper heat reflected by a Scoville score is from 500 or less (sweet peppers) to over 2.6 million (''Pepper X'') (table below; Scoville scales for individual chili peppers are in the respective linked article). Some peppers such as the [[Guntur chilli]] and [[Capsicum pubescens|Rocoto]] are excluded from the list due to their very wide SHU range. Others such as [[Dragon's Breath (chili pepper)|Dragon's Breath]] and [[Capsicum chinense#Common C. chinense varieties|Chocolate 7-pot]] have not been [[Hottest chili pepper#Contenders|officially verified]].<ref name="chili">{{cite web | title=Pepper X – Latest News and Information | website=Chili Pepper Madness|author= Mike Hultquist| date=23 February 2018 | url=https://www.chilipeppermadness.com/news/pepper-x-latest-news-and-information/ | access-date=21 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/t-magazine/hot-chiles-pepper-spice.html|title=How the Chile Became Hot|author=Ligaya Mishan|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 18, 2022|accessdate=September 1, 2022|quote=Carolina Reaper, known to reach as many as 2.2 million S.H.U.s — more potent than some pepper sprays — and certified by Guinness World Records as the hottest chile on earth.}}</ref>

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! Scoville heat units  <!--Dragons Breath, Apollo pepper, and Chocolate 7-pot have not been officially verified; add only peppers with a reliable source for its Scoville score; this table does not display a comprehensive list-->
! Examples
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| style="color:white; background:#600; text-align:right; padding-right:8px;"| 2,693,000 || [[Pepper X]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Pepper X, Hottest chilli pepper |url=https://guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/hottest-chili |publisher=Guinness World Records Ltd. |access-date=16 October 2023 |date=2023}}</ref>
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| style="color:white; background:#800; text-align:right; padding-right:8px;"| 1,500,000–2,500,000 || [[Carolina Reaper]]<ref name= "latimes">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-worlds-hottest-pepper-scoville-heat-units-20131226-story.html|title=World's hottest pepper hits 2.2 million Scoville heat units|last=Hallock|first=Betty|date=December 26, 2013|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128091737/https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/hottest-chili/|archivedate=January 28, 2023|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/hottest-chili/|title=Hottest chilli pepper (2017)|work=Guinness World Records|accessdate=October 16, 2023}}</ref>
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| style="color:white; background:#900; text-align:right; padding-right:8px;"| 750,000–1,500,000 || [[Trinidad Moruga Scorpion]],<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9085820/Chile-experts-identify-Trinidad-Moruga-Scorpion-as-worlds-hottest.html |title=Chile experts identify Trinidad Moruga Scorpion as world's hottest |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=UK|date=2012-02-16}}</ref> [[Naga Viper pepper]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Dykes|first=Brett Michael |title= World's hottest pepper is 'hot enough to strip paint'|url=http://beta.news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/world-hottest-pepper-hot-enough-strip-paint.html |publisher= [[Yahoo! News]]|date=3 December 2010 |access-date=3 December 2010}}</ref> [[Infinity chili]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12506652 |work= bbc.co.uk| publisher= BBC News |title=Grantham's Infinity chilli named hottest in world |date=2011-02-18}}</ref> [[Ghost pepper]]<ref name="bosland">{{cite web |url=http://www.nmsu.edu/~ucomm/Releases/2007/february/hottest_chile.htm |title=NMSU is home to the world's hottest chile pepper| website= nmsu.edu| publisher= [[New Mexico State University]] |access-date=2007-02-21 |year=2007 |first= Shaline L. |last= Lopez |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070219124128/http://www.nmsu.edu/~ucomm/Releases/2007/february/hottest_chile.htm |archive-date=2007-02-19 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| style="color:white; background:#c00; text-align:right; padding-right:8px;"| 350,000–750,000 || [[Red Savina pepper|Red savina habanero]]<ref name="redsavina">{{cite web |url=http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Worlds-hottest-chile-pepper-discovered-991-1/ |title=World's hottest chile pepper discovered |website=bio-medicine.org |date= |publisher=[[American Society for Horticultural Science]] |access-date=2008-03-31 |archive-date=2021-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115181838/http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/Worlds-hottest-chile-pepper-discovered-991-1/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| style="color:white; background:#f00; text-align:right; padding-right:8px;"| 100,000–350,000 || [[Habanero chili]],<ref name="homecookingabout">{{cite web |url= http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/blhotchiles.htm |title= Chile Pepper Heat Scoville Scale |website= [[About.com]] |access-date= 2006-09-25 |archive-date= 2012-02-26 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120226211137/http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/blhotchiles.htm |url-status= dead }}</ref> [[Scotch bonnet (pepper)|Scotch bonnet pepper]]<ref name="homecookingabout" /> [[Madame Jeanette]]<ref name="pepperscale">{{cite web|title=Pepperscale|url=https://www.pepperscale.com/madame-jeanette-pepper/|accessdate=12 February 2018}}</ref>
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| style="color:white; background:#ff2424; text-align:right; padding-right:8px;"| 50,000–100,000 || [[Bird's eye chili]] (Thai chili pepper),<ref name="scottr">{{cite web|last1=Roberts|first1=Scott|title=Scoville Scale|url=http://www.scottrobertsweb.com/scoville-scale|website=Scott Roberts|access-date=7 April 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319173228/http://www.scottrobertsweb.com/scoville-scale|archive-date=19 March 2015|location=Dardenne Prairie|language=en-us|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Malagueta pepper]]<ref name= "scottr" />
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| style="color:white; background:#ff4949; text-align:right; padding-right:8px;"| 25,000–50,000 || [[Tabasco pepper]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Jean |title=Peppers: the Domesticated Capsicums |date=1995 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=9780292704671 |page=58 |edition=illustrated |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SsjvX31EMekC}}</ref> [[Cayenne pepper]]<ref name= "chileman">{{cite web|url=http://www.thechileman.org/results.php?chile=1&find=cayenne&heat=Any&origin=Any&genus=Any&subscribe=Search;|title=Database of Chilli Pepper Varieties|website=The Chileman|access-date=November 9, 2017}}</ref>
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| style="background:#ff6d6d; text-align:right; padding-right:8px;"| 10,000–25,000 || [[Serrano pepper]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://downinthekitchen.com/peppers/#Types_of_Hot_Peppers_8211|access-date=19 May 2022 |title=Types of hot peppers}}</ref> [[Aleppo pepper]],<ref>{{cite web | title= Pepper Heat Ratings in Scoville Units | url= http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penzeys/p-penzeyschilipeppers.html | publisher= [[Penzeys Spices]] | access-date= 2010-10-20 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100227100927/http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penzeys/p-penzeyschilipeppers.html | archive-date= 2010-02-27 | url-status= dead }}</ref> [[Cheongyang chili pepper]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140905000908|title=Hot pepper town swept by heat wave|last=Crawford|first=Matthew C.|date=5 September 2014|newspaper=[[The Korea Herald]]|access-date=9 January 2017}}</ref>
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| style="background:#ff9292; text-align:right; padding-right:8px;"| 2,500–10,000 || [[Jalapeño|Jalapeño pepper]],<ref name="molecules">{{cite journal|pmid=24184818|year=2013|last1=González-Zamora|first1=A|title=Characterization of different Capsicum varieties by evaluation of their capsaicinoids content by high performance liquid chromatography, determination of pungency and effect of high temperature|journal=Molecules|volume=18|issue=11|pages=13471–86|last2=Sierra-Campos|first2=E|last3=Luna-Ortega|first3=J. G|last4=Pérez-Morales|first4=R|last5=Rodríguez Ortiz|first5=J. C|last6=García-Hernández|first6=J. L|doi=10.3390/molecules181113471|pmc=6269802|doi-access=free}}</ref> [[Guajillo chili]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Guajillo pepper: The sweet side of spice |url=https://www.pepperscale.com/guajillo-pepper/ |author1=Bray, Matt|access-date=4 September 2018|date=22 November 2014}}</ref>
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| style="background:#ffb6b6; text-align:right; padding-right:8px;"| 1,000–2,500 ||[[Poblano|Poblano pepper]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lillywhite |first1=Jay M. |last2=Simonsen |first2=Jennifer E. |last3=Uchanski |first3=Mark E. |year=2013 |title=Spicy Pepper Consumption and Preferences in the United States |journal=HortTechnology |volume=23 |issue=6 |pages=868–876 |doi=10.21273/HORTTECH.23.6.868 |quote=Any pepper type with ≥ 1 SHU could be considered spicy. However, for this study, paprika (0–300 SHU), New Mexico long green or red chile (300–500 SHU), and poblano/ancho (≈1,369 SHU) types were included as mild spicy peppers (Table 1). |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Julius|first1=David|last2=Caterina|first2=Michael J.|last3=Schumacher|first3=Mark A.|last4=Tominaga|first4=Makoto|last5=Rosen|first5=Tobias A.|last6=Levine|first6=Jon D.|journal=Nature|volume=389|issue=6653|year=1997|pages=816–824|issn=0028-0836|doi=10.1038/39807|quote=Reported pungencies for pepper varieties (in Scoville units) are: Habanero (H), 100,000–300,000; Thai green (T), 50,000–100,000; wax (W), 5,000–10,000; and Poblano verde (P), 1,000–1,500 (ref. 23).|pmid=9349813|title=The capsaicin receptor: a heat-activated ion channel in the pain pathway|bibcode=1997Natur.389..816C|s2cid=7970319|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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| style="background:#ffdbdb; text-align:right; padding-right:8px;"| 500–1,000 || [[Cubanelle]],<ref name="scottr"/> [[Beaver Dam pepper]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pepperscale.com/beaver-dam-pepper/|title=Beaver Dam Pepper: Northern Spice|date=6 October 2015 |publisher=Pepperscale.com}}</ref>
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| style="background:#fee; text-align:right; padding-right:8px;"| 0–500 || [[Banana pepper]], [[Friggitello]], [[Pimiento]]<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Thomas R. Koballa |author2=Lee Meadows |author3=Elizabeth C. Doster |author4=David F. Jackson. |title=Hot Peppers to Hurricanes: New Ways to Measure |journal=Science Scope |date=1995 |volume=19 |issue=2 |page=39 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43179500 |publisher=National Science Teachers Association|jstor=43179500 }}</ref>
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| style="background:#fff; text-align:right; padding-right:8px;"| 0 || [[Bell pepper]], [[Peperone crusco]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pepperscale.com/peperone-di-senise/|title=Peperone Di Senise: Basilicata's Sweet Treasure |date=17 August 2019|access-date= 17 September 2020|website=pepperscale.com}}</ref>
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