Hot or not? A visual guide to how spicy different chilli peppers are

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The Scoville scale measures how spicy a food is. It's given in Scoville Heat Units, which measure how much of the chemical capsaisin is in the food. The scale is named after its creator, American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville.

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