Wilbur Scoville Wilbur Scoville Wilbur Lincoln Scoville (January 22, 1865 – March 10, 1942) was an American pharmacist best known for his creation of the "Scoville Organoleptic Test", now standardized as the Scoville scale. He devised the test and scale in 1912 while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company to measure pungency, "spiciness" or "heat", of various chili peppers. Scoville was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He married Cora B. Upham on September 1, 1891 in Wollaston (Quincy, Massachusetts). They had two children: Amy Augusta, born August 21, 1892 and Ruth Upham, born October 21, 1897. Scoville wrote "The Art of Compounding", which
D'Elidas Taylor. The original yellow variety of D'Elidas hot sauce measures 2,500–5,000 SHU on the Scoville scale. Most habanero varieties ripen from green to orange or red and have a Scoville scale heat rating of between 150,000 and 325,000. The product portfolio of D'Elidas S.A. initially contained only the original Yellow hot sauce but has since then expanded to also include both a Red hot sauce and a Green hot sauce, both containing habanero chili and vinegar but without the mustard found in the Yellow hot sauce. There is now also a Chinese style D'Elidas sweet and sour sauce which is