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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 ...
[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.
It is also one of the hottest known chilli peppers and measures 800,000 SHU on Scoville scale. Morich is the word for chilli pepper in Bengali ( মরিচ ), with similar words in Assamese ( মৰিচ , moris ), Nepali , Hindi ( मिर्च ) and the languages of Nagaland and Manipur .
The serrano pepper (Capsicum annuum) is a type of chili pepper that originated in the mountainous regions of the Mexican states of Puebla and Hidalgo. [1] The Scoville rating of the serrano pepper is 10,000 to 25,000. [2] The name of the pepper is a reference to the mountains of these regions. [1] The pepper is commonly used to make hot sauces ...
Armageddon is the world's first F1 hybrid of C. Chinese, one of the ‘Super Hot’ chilies, [3] the fruity-flavored pepper was cultivated to be a quick growing, high yielding and easily harvested pepper, making it a leading candidate for the growing of 'Super Hots' at scale. In 2019, the first commercial grower of the Armageddon promoted it as ...