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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 has met its match. Chili Pepper X has captured the spicy record as the world’s hottest, Guinness World Records announced on Monday.
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]
The Naga Viper pepper is a hot chili pepper.In 2011, it was recorded as the "World's Hottest Chili" by the Guinness World Records with a rating of 1,382,118 Scoville heat units (SHU), [1] but was surpassed in SHU by the Carolina Reaper, in 2017, and again by the latest world record holder Pepper X in 2023.
The Carolina Reaper chili pepper is a cultivar of the Capsicum chinense plant. Developed by American breeder Ed Currie , the pepper is red and gnarled, with a bumpy texture and small pointed tail. It was the hottest chili pepper in the world according to Guinness World Records from 2013 to 2023 before it was surpassed by Pepper X , which was ...
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).
FORT MILL, S.C. (AP) - Ed Currie holds one of his world-record Carolina Reaper peppers by the stem, which looks like the tail of a scorpion. On the other end is the bumpy, oily, fire-engine red ...
These chillies, one of the world's hottest chillies, transforms from green to vibrant red at maturity. [13] [14] [15] Characterized by its sub-conical to conical shape, it measures 2.5-2.95 cm in width and 5.95-8.54 cm in length, with each fruit weighing 12-16 grams. Notable features include finely wrinkled skin, thin flesh, and an intense ...
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