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Mature Carolina Reaper, listed by Guinness as the hottest chili pepper from 2017-2023. Amongst growers in the US, the UK, Australia, and France, there has been a competition since the 1990s to grow the hottest chili pepper. Chili pepper species and cultivars registering over 1,000,000 Scoville Heat units (SHU) are called "super-hots".
The Carolina Reaper was certified as the world's hottest chili pepper by Guinness World Records on August 11, 2017. [6] Testing was conducted by Winthrop University in South Carolina during the certification process which showed an average heat level of 1,641,183 SHU for a given batch.
[3] [9] The range of pepper heat reflected by a Scoville score is from 500 or less (sweet peppers) to over 2.6 million (Pepper X) (table below; Scoville scales for individual chili peppers are in the respective linked article). Some peppers such as the Guntur chilli and Rocoto are excluded from
The Carolina Reaper has met its match. Chili Pepper X has captured the spicy record as the world’s hottest, Guinness World Records announced on Monday.
There’s a new hottest chili pepper in town, created by the South Carolina man who made the Carolina Reaper. SC creator of Carolina Reaper has new hottest pepper on Earth. See it tried on YouTube ...
Pepper X resulted from several cross breedings that produced an exceptionally high content of capsaicin in the locules – the plant tissue holding the seeds. [2] The extensive curves and ridges of a Pepper X chili create more surface area for the plant placenta and locules to grow and retain capsaicin, adding to the intensity of heat experienced when a Pepper X is eaten. [2]
A new pepper three times hotter than the previous Guinness World Record holder hit the market this week. Pepper X rates at an average of 2.693 million Scoville Heat Units (SHU), a measure of ...
In 2012, New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute identified the Trinidad Moruga scorpion as the hottest chili pepper at that time, with heat of 1.2 million Scoville heat units (SHUs). [1] By 2017 according to Guinness World Records, the hottest pepper was the Carolina Reaper, with 1.6 million SHU. [2]