Who is Wilbur Scoville, you may ask. He was born 151 years ago on January 22, 1865. Mr. Scoville is the inventor of the Scoville scale. This is also known as the Scovie Scale. The Scoville scale is an objective way to calculate how hot chili peppers really are. Chili peppers are then ranked by Scoville Heat Units (SHU). The scale ranges from zero, a green pepper, to 2,200,000 SHU’s. The hottest pepper on the scale is a Carolina Reaper pepper. While I’ve never tried a Carolina Reaper pepper, with a ranking of around 2,000,000 on the Scovie scale it makes me not to want to try it. In comparison, a regular Jalapeno pepper ranges from 3,500 to 10,000 SHU, while Tabasco sauce is about 1,200 – 1,600. For example, the SHU’s for our nationally award winning Traverse Bay Farms fruit salsas are on the very low end of the scale of around 1,000. They are the perfect blend of heat and flavor. In fact, the other ingredients like tomatoes, onions and the individual fruit helps to reduce the overall heat of the final salsa flavor, too. They really aren’t hot and all of our fruit and gourmet salsas offer a full body flavor with just enough spice so they qualify as a salsa.
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Who is Wilbur Scoville, you may ask. He was born 151 years ago on January 22, 1865. Mr. Scoville is the inventor of the Scoville scale. This is also known as the Scovie Scale. The Scoville scale is an objective way to calculate how hot chili peppers really are. Chili peppers are then ranked by Scoville Heat Units (SHU). The scale ranges from zero, a green pepper, to 2,200,000 SHU’s. The hottest pepper on the scale is a Carolina Reaper pepper. While I’ve never tried a Carolina Reaper pepper, with a ranking of around 2,000,000 on the Scovie scale it makes me not to want to try it. In comparison, a regular Jalapeno pepper ranges from 3,500 to 10,000 SHU, while Tabasco sauce is about 1,200 – 1,600. For example, the SHU’s for our nationally award winning Traverse Bay Farms fruit salsas are on the very low end of the scale of around 1,000. They are the perfect blend of heat and flavor. In fact, the other ingredients like tomatoes, onions and the individual fruit helps to reduce the overall heat of the final salsa flavor, too. They really aren’t hot and all of our fruit and gourmet salsas offer a full body flavor with just enough spice so they qualify as a salsa.
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