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The Scoville scale is a measurement of pungency (spiciness or "heat") ... Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, [20] Naga Viper pepper, [21] Infinity chili, [22] Ghost pepper [23]
The Trinidad scorpion 'Butch T' pepper was, for three years, ranked the most pungent ("hot") pepper in the world according to Guinness World Records. [5] [6] A laboratory test conducted in March 2011 measured a specimen at 1,463,700 Scoville heat units, officially ranking it the hottest pepper in the world at the time.
The Trinidad Moruga scorpion (a cultivar of Capsicum chinense) is a chili pepper native to the village of Moruga, Trinidad and Tobago.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).
In 2012, the Chili Pepper Institute called the Trinidad Moruga scorpion the new hottest pepper, saying it had been measured at 2 million SHU, the first time the 2-million mark had been reached. [3] Many of the cultivars developed in the attempt to produce ever-hotter peppers are hybrids of chilies traditionally grown in India and Trinidad. [6]
Capsicum chinense, which includes all of the habaneros, [5] Scotch bonnets, Trinidad Scorpions, the Bhut Jolokia, and the Carolina Reaper. Capsicum frutescens, which includes the Tabasco pepper and many of the peppers grown in India; [6] sometimes not distinguished as a species separate from C. annuum. [7] [8]
The Carolina Reaper is the spiciest pepper in the world with 1,569,300 Scoville heat units per pepper, . while the Scorpion pepper is not far behind with 1,463,700 Scoville heat units per pepper.
Trinidad Scorpion may refer to: Trinidad Moruga scorpion, an "exceptionally hot" chili pepper currently ranked as the second-spiciest in the world; Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper, chili that was recognized as the world's hottest pepper by Guinness World Records from 2011 to 2013; Trinidad Scorpion Hallucinations, a 2016 album by Jeff Hughell
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