Top 10 hottest peppers in the world 2020 update shu scoville heat unit a measure of spiciness pepper scoville scale displayed as peak shu values. It really says a lot about the state of super hot peppers when the notorious ghost pepper once guinness book champ barely cracks the top 15 hottest peppers in the world.
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The carolina reaper is a cultivar of the capsicum chinense plant.
The hottest pepper in the world. Developed by south carolina breeder ed currie the pepper is red and gnarled with a bumpy texture and small pointed tail. Growers are producing hotter and hotter hybrids with hopes of pushing the scoville heat scale limits. In 2017 guinness world records declared it the hottest chili pepper in the world surpassing the previous record holder the trinidad scorpion butch t.
The list of the hottest peppers in the world is growing all the time. The hottest peppers in the world are the komodo dragon chili pepper trinidad moruga scorpion pepper naga viper pepper infinity chilli naga morich the bhut jolokia the ghost pepper and the spanish naga chili sitting between 855 000 and 2 4m on the scoville heat units scale. 2017 saw a flurry of news articles with potential new hottest pepper in the world claims including the dragon s breath pepper and the ultra blazing pepper x.
Other varieties may be spicier such as dragon s. 15 ghost pepper bhut jolokia 855 000 to 1 041 427 scoville heat units see our full ghost pepper profile here. Shu is a way of quantifying how spicy a pepper is by measuring the concentration of capsaicinoids.