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The Scoville scale is a measurement of the pungency of chili peppers, or other spicy foods, as reported in Scoville heat units, a function of capsaicin concentration. Capsaicin is one of many related pungent compounds found in chili peppers, collectively called capsaicinoids. The scale is named after its creator, American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville whose 1912 method is known as the Scoville organoleptic test. In modern times, high-performance liquid chromatography is used to determine the pungen
The result is a number measured in American Spice Trade Association (ASTA) pungency units, and you can multiply the ASTA pungency units by 15 in order to get the Scoville units. So while the method may have changed, we can still use the Scoville scale to report the heat of a particular pepper.