By Deborah BlumOne hundred years ago, an American pharmacist named Wilbur Scoville developed a scale to measure the intensity of a pepper’s burn. The scale – as you can see on the widely used chart to the left – puts sweet bell peppers at the zero mark and the blistering habenero at up to 350,000 Scoville Units.I checked the Scoville Scale for something else yesterday. I was looking for a way to measure the intensity of pepper spray, the kind that...
