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pungency: a standalone construct

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pungency1 CONSTRUCTPungencySCOVILLE · 1912

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The burning “heat” of chilli and pepper

Pungency is the hot, biting sensation of chilli peppers, black pepper and mustard (the “heat” of spicy food), produced chiefly by capsaicinoids stimulating irritant nerve endings. Scoville’s 1912 Note on Capsicums introduced the dilution test that became the Scoville scale for rating it, and Caterina and colleagues’ 1997 identification of the capsaicin receptor (TRPV1), a heat-activated ion channel, supplied its molecular basis. The referent is a specific chemesthetic percept with a defined stimulus and receptor, measured in Scoville heat units.[1][2]

Unit
Perceived heat intensity, classically in Scoville heat units
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Rated by the Scoville dilution test or sensory panels and quantified chemically by HPLC of capsaicinoids

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References

  1. Scoville, W. L. (1912). Note on Capsicums. The Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, 1(5), 453–454. https://doi.org/10.1002/jps.3080010520
  2. Caterina, M. J., Schumacher, M. A., Tominaga, M., Rosen, T. A., Levine, J. D., & Julius, D. (1997). The capsaicin receptor: A heat-activated ion channel in the pain pathway. Nature, 389(6653), 816–824. https://doi.org/10.1038/39807

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