The state of Tabasco, where the sauce gets its name, is in which country?
Tabasco pepper it can deter fruit growth. Tabasco pepper The tabasco pepper is a variety of chili pepper species "Capsicum frutescens" with its origins in Mexico. It is best known through its use in Tabasco sauce, followed by "peppered vinegar". Like all "C. frutescens" cultivars, the tabasco plant has a typical bushy growth, which commercial cultivation makes stronger by trimming the plants. The tapered fruits, around 4 cm long, are initially pale yellowish-green and turn yellow and orange before ripening to bright red. Tabascos rate from 30,000 to 50,000 on the Scoville scale of heat levels, and are the only variety of
Tabasco sauce Tabasco sauce Tabasco sauce is a brand of hot sauce made exclusively from tabasco peppers ("Capsicum frutescens" var. "tabasco"), vinegar, and salt. It is produced by McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana. Although the name comes from the Mexican state of Tabasco, the sauce is a U.S. product produced by McIlhenny Company. According to company legend, Tabasco sauce was first produced in 1868 by Edmund McIlhenny, a Maryland-born former banker who moved to Louisiana around 1840. However, as Jeffrey Rothfeder's book "McIlhenny's Gold" points out, at least some of the self-promotional McIlhenny Company official history is fictitious. An October 10,