In the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, the Red Sabina Habanero is grown, which has between 350,000 and 570,000 itch brushes .
This unit, named after its creator, the North American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville, measures its content of capsaicin, an alkaloid found in the seed and the pericarp and irritates the mucosa of the mouth, causing itching.
In competition with the Habanero is the Tezpur pepper, from India, to which more than 800,000 brushes have been attributed, although it is not approved. They are followed by the Jamaican Scotch Bonnet, the cayenne and the Tabasco, with 50,000 and 30,000, and the chilli, which has between 30,000 and 15,000.
