Mg of capsaicin per g to Scoville heat units

Type a value in mg/g to get it in SHU instantly.

Heat

From To

800,000,000SHU

That's 50× as hot as pure capsaicin — nothing on our list beats it. To stop tasting it, you would dilute it about 800,000,000 times in sugar water.

What it means

How hot is that?

Pepper heat varies several-fold with the variety, ripeness and growing conditions; figures are typical values. 1 ppm of capsaicinoids ≈ 16 SHU.

The math

How to convert mg/g to SHU

To convert mg of capsaicin per g to Scoville heat units, multiply by 16,000.

Example: 50,000 mg/g × 16,000 = 800,000,000 SHU.

In the other direction, 1 SHU = 6.25×10⁻⁵ mg/g.

Every unit

That heat in every unit

Tables

mg/g to SHU conversion table

mg/g to SHU conversion table
mg/g	SHU
100 mg/g	1,600,000 SHU
500 mg/g	8,000,000 SHU
1,000 mg/g	16,000,000 SHU
2,500 mg/g	40,000,000 SHU
5,000 mg/g	80,000,000 SHU
10,000 mg/g	160,000,000 SHU
25,000 mg/g	400,000,000 SHU
50,000 mg/g	800,000,000 SHU
100,000 mg/g	1.6×10⁹ SHU
250,000 mg/g	4×10⁹ SHU
500,000 mg/g	8×10⁹ SHU
1,000,000 mg/g	1.6×10¹⁰ SHU
2,000,000 mg/g	3.2×10¹⁰ SHU
5,000,000 mg/g	8×10¹⁰ SHU
16,000,000 mg/g	2.56×10¹¹ SHU

SHU to mg/g conversion table

SHU to mg/g conversion table
SHU	mg/g
100 SHU	0.00625 mg/g
500 SHU	0.03125 mg/g
1,000 SHU	0.0625 mg/g
2,500 SHU	0.15625 mg/g
5,000 SHU	0.3125 mg/g
10,000 SHU	0.625 mg/g
25,000 SHU	1.5625 mg/g
50,000 SHU	3.125 mg/g
100,000 SHU	6.25 mg/g
250,000 SHU	15.625 mg/g
500,000 SHU	31.25 mg/g
1,000,000 SHU	62.5 mg/g
2,000,000 SHU	125 mg/g
5,000,000 SHU	312.5 mg/g
16,000,000 SHU	1,000 mg/g

Quick answers

How many SHU is 1 mg/g?: 1 mg/g is 16,000 SHU.
How many SHU is 10 mg/g?: 10 mg/g is 160,000 SHU.
How many SHU is 50,000 mg/g?: 50,000 mg/g is 800,000,000 SHU.

The units

About these units

Mg of capsaicin per g (mg/g)

Milligrams of capsaicin per gram.

Scoville heat units (SHU)

Times diluted until the burn disappears.

Learn more about heat units

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