What is Scoville rating or unit?
A Scoville rating or unit is a scale to rate the heat of a pepper. The higher the rating the hotter the pepper. Border Foods uses a High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph, or HPLC. In this method, the pods are ground and the capsaicinoids are chemically extracted. The extracted chemicals are injected into the HPLC machine for analysis. This produces a much more accurate rating.
