carolina reaper is the hottest chili pepper in the world on the scoville scale, as confirmed by guinness world records.
confirmed by guinness world records, what is the hottest chili pepper in the world on the scoville scale?
carolina reaper
the sensory heat or pungency detected when consuming a carolina reaper derives from the density of capsaicinoids, particularly capsaicin, which relates directly to intensity of chili pepper heat and scoville scale. bred in a rock hill, south carolina greenhouse by "smokin" ed currie, proprietor of the puckerbutt pepper company in fort mill, the carolina reaper was certified as the world's hottest chili pepper by the guinness world records on 11 august 2017. the official guinness world record heat level was 1,641,183 scoville heat units (shu) in 2017, according to tests conducted by winthrop university in south carolina. the figure is an average for the tested batch; the hottest individual pepper was measured at 2.2 million shu.
carolina reaper
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the infinity chili pepper is a chili pepper hybrid of the "capsicum chinense" species created in england by chili breeder nick woods of fire foods, grantham, lincolnshire.





























for two weeks in february 2011, the infinity chili held the guinness world record title for the world's hottest chili with a scoville scale rating of 1,067,286 scoville heat units (shu). on march 1, 2011, it was displaced by the trinidad scorpion "butch t" pepper, which registered 1,463,700 shu.
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