Researchers at Oregon State University have created two new habanero peppers that are mild. The new varieties are called ‘Notta Hotta’ and ‘Mild Thing.’ OSU says they retain the fruity and floral ...

Two mild habanero peppers known as “Notta Hotta” and “Mild Thing” that retain the peppers’ unique fruity and floral ...

Jim Myers works in vegetable breeding and genetics at OSU. On a recent visit to the experimental farm where the peppers were ...

If you’re on the lookout for ingredients to stir into a homemade salsa that won’t fry your tongue, you may be in luck next year.

It looks like a habanero, smells like a habanero, but is palatable like an Anaheim pepper. Two new mild habanero ... Spice levels, or pungency, are measured in Scoville Heat Units (SHU).

I went up the ranks of the Scoville scale, dosing myself with Thai bird chiles, Scotch bonnets, habaneros, Trinidad Moruga scorpions and bhut jolokias, also known as ghost peppers, whose intensity ...

Oregon State University is releasing two mild habanero peppers that chefs can use to pack in flavor and aroma without the ...

Pimento peppers are about the size of an orange, and are shaped like a heart (aww). They're slightly higher on the Scoville scale than bell peppers (which, quite literally, have zero Scoville ...

Myers said, to put them in perspective, these peppers rank at about 500 to 1,000 on the Scoville heat scale. Regular Habanero peppers are between 100,000 and 300,000. He said 1,000 is the ...

That’s closer to bell pepper on the scale than a regular habanero, which can reach between 100,000 to 300,000 on the Scoville chart, Myers said. He’s actually been working on these varieties ...