Chilli (or Chile) powder is the ground, dried fruit of one or more varieties of chilli pepper, most commonly red pepper or cayenne pepper, both of the species Capsicum Annuum. It is typically used as a spice to add heat or bite to dishes.

Chilli powder is also known as ground/powdered red pepper or sometimes by the specific variety of chilli pepper used.

Chilli peppers are much smaller than sweet peppers and can be green, yellow, orange, red or black. Don't be fooled by their small size - they pack a fiery punch! There are more than 200 known varieties and they differ greatly in size, colour and level of hotness. There's an official heat scale for chillies known as the Scoville scale, developed by Wilbur Scoville in 1912. To give you an idea of the range of heat in various chillies, a sweet pepper scores 0 on the scale, Jalapeño and chipotle chillies score anything between 2,500 to 10,000 and habanero and Scotch Bonnet score 80,000 to 300,000 plus!

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