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Short explainers from the Scoville Splice science team.
What is a Scoville Unit?
The 1912 origin, the modern HPLC-based method, and the five capsaicinoids that set the scale.
What is the hottest pepper?
From Carolina Reaper to Pepper X — and where our Heat Ladder climbs from roughly 0.9 to 2.9 million SHU.
Can tomatoes be spicy?
The Beyond Peppers thesis: engineering the capsaicin pathway into Solanum lycopersicum.
Can you engineer rice to be spicy?
The Tier 4 Frontier project: lessons from Golden Rice applied to capsaicin biosynthesis in cereal.