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, ...

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.

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The famously hot Ghost pepper is rated at around 1 million Scoville units. Lil’ Nitro costs just over $8 and comes with a “consume-at-your-own-risk” warning.

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 ...

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.

Doctors discovered a "2.5-cm tear” in the man's esophagus. For the 47-year-old man whose esophagus was damaged, though, ingesting the pepper burger was less a bear chase and closer to an attack.

One hundred years ago, an American pharmacist named Wilbur Scoville developed a scale to measure the intensity of a pepper’s burn. The scale – as you can see on the widely used chart to the ...