Bear spray is a nonlethal defensive weapon designed to stop bears from attacking. ... from Tabasco to Hormel chili. Undiluted, it ranks on the Scoville heat unit scale at 3.2 million to 3.6 million.

Bear spray is “probably a weapon of choice because it’s more powerful, more pressurized, ... The strength of peppers is measured in Scoville heat units, or SHUs, ...

So where a habanero might top out around 300,000 Scoville heat units — a measurement for spiciness — bear spray is more like 2 million. On the skin, it feels like terrible sunburn. My cheeks ...

A habanero, one of the hotter chile peppers readily available in supermarkets, has about 200,000 Scoville heat units. Bear spray can have 3 million. Related Content: ...

Capsicum oil also forms the basis of bear spray, an aerosol designed to protect humans who encounter a bear. Pepper spray has a very high score on the Scoville heat units (SHU) scale, which ...

Pepper X has a rating of an average of 2.69 million Scoville Heat Units (SHU). On the SHU scale, ... pepper spray used in self-defense is about 1.6 million SHUs and bear spray is about 2.2 million.

Peppers aren’t the only thing that have a Scoville score, pepper spray has a score of 1.6 million Scoville Heat Units while bear spray has a score of 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units ...

Bear spray advertises at 2.2 million units. ... The heat of a pepper is measured in Scoville Heat Units. Zero is bland, and a regular jalapeno pepper registers around 5,000 on the Scoville scale.

It's yet another reason you can't always trust the Scoville scale. ... bell peppers rank around a 0 on Scoville Heat Units ... ranking in at a bear spray-like 2,693,000 SHUs.

Bird’s eye chiles can hit about 100,000 Scoville units, and a regular jalapeno about 8,000 units. The AP says pepper spray comes in at about 2 million Scoville units.