Scoville heat unit is the scale used for determining the pungency of pepper/ chilli.The unit accounts for the amount of capscicin content of the chilli. Unit was developed by Wilbur Scoville (1912). The hottest chilli is Raja mirchi (king of chillies), which founds in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Assam. it is also known as naga jolokia, bhut jolokia etc. This chilli renowned as world's hottest chilli with 1 million SHUs.
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