Name / Type of Chilli | Description | ASTA color value | Capsaicin |
Bird’s eye chilli(dhani) | Blood red in color, highly pungent | 41.7 | 0.59% |
Byadagi(kaddi) | Red color, less pungency or without pungency | 156.9 | Negligible |
Ellachipur sannam-S4 type | Reddish in color and very hot | 70.4 | 0.20% |
Guntur sannam-S4 type | Skin thick,hot and red | 32.1 | 0.23% |
Hindpur-S7 | Red in color,hot and highly pungent | 33 | 0.24% |
Jwala | Highly pungent, light red in color, short and the seeds are pungent | | 0.40% |
Kanthari (white) | Short and ivory white in color with high pungency | 2.96 | 0.50% |
Kashmiri Chilli | Long, fleshy, deep red in color | 54.1 | 0.33% |
Madhya Pradesh G.T.sannam | Red in color and pungent | | |
Madras Pari | Pure red in color and hot | 73.82 | 0.21% |
Madhya Pradesh G.T.sannam | Red in color and pungent | | |
Madras Pari | Pure red in color and hot | 73.82 | 0.21% |
Nagpur | Red in color and pungent | | |
Nalchetti | Red in color and extremely pungent | 77.03 | 0.12% |
Ramnad | Yellowish | 32.95 | 0.17% |
Mundu | Red and hot | | |
Sangli sannam-S4type | Light red in color and hot | 73.55 | 0.22% |
Sattur-S4 | Red in color, pungent with thick skin | 59.1 | 0.24% |
S9 Mundu | Tomato red in color with fairly good pungency | | |
Tadapally-big long | Red in color, less pungent, thick skin | 80.3 | 0.11% |
Tomato chilli(Warangal chappatta) | Deep red and less pungent | 125.26 | 0.17% |