Chilli Quiz: Heat, Birds and the Scoville Scale
Six questions on chilli peppers: where they come from, which spices they make, the Scoville scale and the birds that eat them.
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6 - Length
About 4 min
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- Where did chilli peppers originally grow?
- You bite into a hot habanero. Which drink has been shown to calm the burn best?
- Which animals can eat hot chillies without feeling the same burn as humans?
- Put these peppers in order of heat, mildest first.
- How did the original Scoville test measure a chilli’s heat?
- Birds spread chilli seeds. Why is capsaicin harmless to them?