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Pepperoncini contain 500 Scoville units, ranking them low on the pepper scale. Chili peppers. A sweet red bell pepper has a Scoville Heat Unit score of 0. A jalapeno pepper, which has a Scoville score of 8,000. Some cooks use fresh jalapeno peppers to add heat and flavor to chili or other simple dishes.
But they're also popularly known as Bird's Eye chilies, or Bird peppers, simply because looking at one from the stem-end can appear like the eye of a bird. When they are fully mature, they turn red. They are a variety of Capsicum frutescens and were originally the chili used in Sriracha sauce. Heat Warning: Bird's eye chilies are very hot. On the Scoville scale, they rate between 50,000 and 100,000 Scoville units. That's over 20 times hotter than a jalapeno but three times less spicy than a habanero.