What does SU stand for?

Scoville Unit (heat level of chili peppers)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Classic Tabasco sauce ranges from 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units while jalapeno peppers measure from 2,500 to 8,000.

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The chili has more than 1,000,000 Scoville units, the scientific measurement of a chili's spiciness.

Indian woman blazes through chili-eating feat

6million Scoville Units - the measure of chilli heat - more than twice the tally of the former record holder, the Red Savina.

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Most habanero chiles, in terms of hotness, fall between 100,000 and 300,000 Scoville units, known as SHUs by the industry.

Hotter by the minute: Mexico's chile pepper producers come together ...

For example, the mild Anaheim chilli rates 1,000 units, the Habanero is 300 times hotter at 300,000 and the hottest chilli of them all - the Naga from Assam, which is now also cultivated in Dorset - delivers nearly 1,000,000 Scoville units.

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And before the burn of some 300,000 Scoville units could reach whatever part of the brain it is that comprehends really hot stuff, she did it again.

Pick your method to put out a chili fire, but make it quick

The capsaicin levels for each type of pepper are measured in Scoville units according to a testing method originally devised in 1912 by Wilbur Scoville, a pharmachologist for Parke Davis, the drug company using capsaicin in its muscle salve, Heet.

Hot peppers

The most accepted index of measurement is the Scoville Unit.

Scoville inferno