Inside the life of Tabasco

Yellow to orange to red

Up to 100 pods per plant!

Mr. Big Food is going to make his own Tabasco sauce! 

Speaking of Tabasco sauce, from the seed packet, I learned that the name Tabasco comes from the Mexican state. During the 1850s New Orleans and Tabasco traded extensively. The McIlhenny family of Avery Island, Louisiana began growing Tabasco peppers and developed the original Tabasco sauce.

McIlhenny Tabasco Sauce has a Scoville Heat Unit of 2500-5000. Tabasco peppers are 30,000-50,000. They are hot. Just ask Mr. Big Food who tasted a teeny tiny bite of an orange one the other day.