Google is known to
educate people as well as celebrate inventors and also inventions that have
significance in our day to day lives via its doodles. Today’s doodle by doodler
Olivia Huynh will remind you about the tongue-gurning, tear inducing qualities of
peppers long before Columbus reached the Americas.
American scientist Wilbur Scoville, was the first to
measure the heat component in chillies. And Google is marking his 151st birth
anniversary with a playable doodle that integrates the his eponymous Scoville
Scale that measures the pungency (spicy heat) of chilli peppers.
The doodle is
celebrating Scoville’s 151st birthday with a fun and interactive game. He is
known for giving the world the “Scoville organoleptic test”, a scale for
measuring the “hotness of chillies” that has long served as the definitive
rating of how spicy a chilli is.
It
is an interactive doodle that lets you have some fun. Once you click on the
fiery play button, the interactive game will help you learn heat
properties of bell pepper, jalapeno pepper and cayenne pepper. You need to
throw ice-cream on the peppers to neutralise them. As the game proceeds, it
gets difficult to use the slider and aim the ice-cream at the pepper.
You probably
don’t know that the hottest part of a chilli is not the seeds but the flesh
inside that contains capsicain, a chemical which generates heat causing a
burning sensation. The hotness of each variety of chilli is determined by the
amount of heat it generates. Hot chilli peppers have been credited
with helping to lose weight, inducing labour and relieving pain.
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