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ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world āØ1ā© āØdayā© agoIām not sure how the Scoville system measures it exactly since of course no pepper or anything else is going to be pure capsaicin. Is it based on the number of milligrams of capsaicin within a serving or what? Certainly a tiny sliver of Carolina Reaper is different than eating the whole thing but itās considered a 2.2M pepper regardless.
In any event Iāve eaten straight reapers and done the 2022 One Chip challenge - the blue tongue one - without issue. The Lil Nitro gummy is way, way hotter than a reaper or the One Chip challenge, and the Trouble Bubble seemed about the same as the Lil Nitro gummy and its the only thing Iāve ever eaten that got a reaction out of me so I wouldnāt call it BS. Can your taste buds really distinguish between an unnatural 9M or 16M scoville anyway? The gum is devious in that you have to chew it a long time to get the sugar out of it and make it pliable enough to blow a bubble. You make and swallow a lot of saliva filled with lava during that time. Iām sure thatās what made me puke. Whatever itās rating should be - if the 16M is inaccurate - thereās nothing mild about it. I can guarantee you eat it and you wonāt call it BS. š
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de āØ1ā© āØdayā© ago
Scoville is measured by blending or breaking down what the capsaicin is in and analyzing what percentage of that is made of capsaicin. Pure capsaicin is 16,000,000 scoville. Half capsaicin is 8,000,000 scoville, and so on. Since the gum has like 8 ingredients in it and the ingredients are legally required to be listed in order of amount the food contains, and the pepper extract is listed as the 8th ingredient, the absolute highest scoville the gum could have is 2,000,000 and thatās only if all 8 ingredients were in equal amounts, which is pretty much a zero chance. In all likelihood the gum is between 300,000 and 800,000 if I were to make agood guess of it.
They must be kind of inconsistent with the chips and the nitro gummy bear, because when I did the nitro gummy it was a lot less hot than when I did the chip.
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world āØ23ā© āØhoursā© ago
Your explanation doesnāt seem to match Wikipedia or what Googleās AI summary says on how Scovilleās are calculated. Itās essentially a parts per million capsaicin x a scale.
In any event I can say the 2022 One Chip challenge and eating a dried Carolina Reaper seems about the same to me. Only did the chip once but Iāve done reapers a couple times and theyāre certainly hot, but Iāve never struggled with anything hot. Doesnāt bother me in the restroom either like so many othersā¦ not sure why. The one time I did the gummyā¦ way hotter than a pepper or the One Chip. Not even close. Wouldnāt recommend to anyone that found the chip or a straight pepper an issue. And the gum? Like I said itās devious in how much capsaicin youāre forced to swallow while trying to get to the place to blow a bubble. About 5 minutes after completing the challenge my stomach started to feel like there was a balloon inside it. Told my wife Iām either gonna have a monster burp or Iām gonna puke and then the evacuation started. Iād do it again probably if I had someone doing it with me just to be entertained by their reaction, and to see if my stomach would respond the same way again. Wouldnāt recommend to anyone that hasnt challenged themselves at extreme levels already though. The one I ate was no joke.