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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".
Pepper stand at Central Market in Houston, Texas, showing its peppers ranked on the Scoville scale The ghost pepper of Northeast India is considered to be a "very hot" pepper, at about 1 million SHU. [1] The Naga Morich, with around 1 million SHU, [2] is primarily grown in India and Bangladesh.
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.
Characteristics of ghost peppers: Even heat lovers fear the ghost pepper, which is 100 times hotter than a jalapeño and 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce. It’s native to Northeastern India ...
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).
[6] [7] Previously the record for the hottest pepper had been held by the scorpion pepper which measured in at 1,463,700 SHU in comparison. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It was later claimed through media outlets such as the Associated Press that an individual Carolina Reaper had a heat level of 2.2 million SHU.
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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.