Description
Source: Mountain Rose Herbs
Organic, Fair Trade, Kosher
Origin: India
COMMON NAME
Standardized: chili
BOTANICAL NAME
Capsicum annuum L. var. annuum
Plant Family: Solanaceae
OVERVIEW
Chili is the Aztec name for Capsicum annuum. It has been used both as a food and a medicine by Native Americans for over 9000 years. The Capsicum family includes bell peppers, red peppers, paprika, and pimento, but the most famous medicinal members of the family are cayenne and chile. The tasty hot peppers have long been used in many of the world’s cuisines, but their greatest use in health comes from, surprisingly, conventional medicine.
PLANT DETAILS
Our chili flakes are typically between 20,000 – 50,000 HU and considered highly pungent. The pungency of a chili pepper has historically been measured using the Scoville scale, which assigns heat units (SHU or HU) using a subjective assessment to determine the concentration of capsaicin in a pepper. Capsaicin is an active component of chili peppers, responsible for the warming