What's the most savory and spiciest food? Well, first of all, do you know what the Scoville Scale and Scoville Heat Unit (SHU) are? They were named for scientist Wilbur Scoville in 1912 for measuring a chili pepper’s pungency and heat. For example, sweet bell pepper is called so by no chance: it’s the most innocent of the pepper family. It has zero Scoville Heat Units.

Pimento pepper is otherwise called cherry pepper. It’s sweet and only mildly spicy, measuring only 500 Scoville Units on the Scoville Scale. There are 79 different varieties of Thai pepper, but all of them range from 50,000 to 100,000 on the Scoville rating. The hot and mighty Carolina Reaper — the absolute champion of hot peppers. It’s a current record-holder for being the spiciest pepper in the world. Measuring at almost 2.2 million Scovilles, this pepper would probably burn your tongue through. But it's still not the hottest spice!

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