Brazilian Starfish Pepper Scoville

The fruit varies in heat but often medium spicy.

Brazilian starfish pepper scoville. Small under 2 in length fruit color. Expect surprises when snacking on this pepper. Capsicum baccatum is a member of the genus capsicum and is one of the five domesticated pepper species. Their one and 3 4 inch width spreads out like the arms of a starfish.

Unknown tell us. 5 6 to 6 0 acidic 6 1 to 6 5 mildly acidic. The fruit varies in heat but often medium spicy sometimes exceeding that of jalapeños. The scoville scale is dominated early by chemical compounds such as resiniferatoxin 16 000 000 000 shu a chemical likely to cause chemical burns on contact with the skin.

Expect surprises when snacking on this pepper. Heat rating in scovilles. Green changing to red. The brazilian starfish pepper is named for its resemblance to the sea star.

Baccatum species have white or cream colored flowers and typically have a green or gold corolla. We say it falls somewhere in between. 5000 30000 the brazilian starfish is a uniquely shaped pepper. Pepper varieties in the c.

This juicy pepper has a floral fruity flavor with medium heat. Unknown tell us. There are discrepancies all around in terms of the scoville heat rating shu of the brazilian starfish. Fresh salsa salads drying.

Some sources say it s a mild chili others say it reaches the high end of cayenne pepper heat 50 000 shu. It is short just 3 4 of an inch tall and boasts the trademark red hue of most chilli peppers. The flavor and heat mixture make it enjoyable to eat raw on salads or in salsas. This tall plant has a vine like habit and produces good yields of 1 2 inch wide starfish shaped peppers that ripen to a brilliant red at maturity.

Hot 5 000 to 30 000 scoville units fruit shape. A unique thing about these peppers is that they are wider than they are long. The star shaped fruits can have variable heat sometimes exceeding that of jalapeños but most are juicy and more often sweet. Brazilian starfish boasts complex floral and fruity tones that are perfectly offset by medium heat.

The baccatum pepper species originated in peru but this variety was domesticated in brazil. This uniquely shaped pepper resembles a star and grows to about 2 inches in size and ripens from green to a beautiful red.