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The ghost chili is rated at more than one million Scoville Heat Units (SHUs) and far surpasses the amount of a cayenne pepper. However, in the race to grow the hottest chili pepper , the ghost chili was superseded by the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper in 2011, the Carolina Reaper in 2013 and Pepper X in 2023.
The Scoville scale is a measurement of pungency (spiciness or "heat") of chili peppers and other substances, recorded in Scoville heat units (SHU). It is based on the concentration of capsaicinoids , among which capsaicin is the predominant component.
"Something like a banana pepper would be in the 500 SHU (Scoville heat units) range, a jalapeño would be in the 5,000 SHU range, a habanero would be in the 100,000 SHU range and some peppers ...
Louisiana Hot Sauce (450 Scoville Heat Units (SHU) [13] Introduced in 1928, A cayenne pepper based hot sauce produced by Southeastern Mills, Inc., in New Iberia, Louisiana. Crystal Hot Sauce (4,000 SHU) [ 13 ] is a brand of Louisiana-style hot sauce produced by family-owned Baumer Foods since 1923.
The strength of Blair's hottest product, "Blair's 16 Million Reserve", is 16 million Scoville units (Tabasco, in comparison, is 2,500 to 5,000 [3] Scoville units). It contains only capsaicin crystals, and is the hottest possible capsaicin-based sauce. Only 999 bottles of "Blair's 16 Million Reserve" were produced, each one signed and numbered ...
The original Dave's Insanity Sauce premiered around 1993 and was one of the first sauces to be made directly from capsaicin extract, allowing it to be hotter than the hottest habanero-pepper sauces of the day. It has been rated at 180,000 Scoville units, [1] compared with 2,500 for Tabasco sauce.
Scotch bonnet (also known as Bonney peppers, or Caribbean red peppers) [1] is a variety of chili pepper named for its supposed resemblance to a Scottish tam o' shanter bonnet. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is native to the Americas —a cultivar of Capsicum chinense , which originated in the Amazon Basin , Central and South America .
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