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Bird’s eye chilly export to US

March 4 , 2023 504 days 571 0
  • Mizoram would soon export ‘bird’s eye chilli’ of the state to the United States for the first time.
  • The Government has obtained geographical identification (GI) tag for bird’s eye chilli or ‘Mizo chilli’.
  • The chilli is to be exported has passed an organic confirmation test in Bangalore last week.
  • The chillies are highly pungent.
  • The Scoville Heat Units (SCU) of spiciness is 50,000 to 1,00,000.
  • The higher the SCU are the greater their spiciness.
  • They are widely grown in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, etc.

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