Jalapeño
Most popular and recognizable of all peppers, the jalapeño has a Scoville rating of 900-5,000. With its tangy and slightly sour taste, it is used most commonly on nachos, in salsa, stews, breads sauces and dips, and chopped to mix with ground beef. The green jalapeño is available whole and sliced in the Trappey's pickled pepper line and is used in the Chef Magic Jalapeño pepper sauce. The red jalapeño is used in Trappey's pepper sauces because of its mature sweet taste.
Tabasco
These small, bright yellow-green or red peppers have a sharp biting heat of 25,000-50,000 S.U. with hints of celery and green onion flavors. The tabasco peppers are used in two forms in the Trappey's line. In the pickled pepper state, the green tabasco Hot Peppers in Vinegar, as well as the juice, are used to spice up almost every meal. These fully matured red peppers are used in several Trappey's pepper sauces.
Serrano
The serranos are long, slightly curved, bright green peppers with crisp, biting heat. One of the most popular peppers, it has a flavor that is highly acidic, and somewhat sweet and citrusy. Its popularity has risen because it is more flavorful than the jalapeño. With its Scoville rating of 10,000 to 23,000, the serrano is a common Mexican cure for stomach ailments. Trappey's brand serrano peppers are commonly eaten as a snack or hors d'oeuvre, or as an ingredient in meat, poultry, seafood and egg dishes.
Cherry
Named after its shape, this pepper is available in both mild and hot products. Cherry peppers are dark green to red in color, and heat levels vary from no heat to 3,500 S.U. This pepper is most commonly used as a garnish for tuna, chicken or garden salads, and as an ingredient in salsa.