What is the hottest chili pepper in the world?
The world's hottest chili pepper is the Carolina Reaper. It was officially recognized as the world's hottest pepper by the Guinness World Records in 2013. The Carolina Reaper was bred by a grower named Ed Currie of the PuckerButt Pepper Company in South Carolina, USA. It is a cross between a Pakistani Naga pepper and a Red Habanero.
The Carolina Reaper has an average Scoville rating of 1.5 million, with some individual peppers measuring up to 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units (SHU). To put this into perspective, the jalapeño pepper has a Scoville rating of 2,500 to 8,000 SHU, while the habanero pepper has a rating of 100,000 to 350,000 SHU.
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