Hottest chilli pepper

According to Official Guinness Records,

The hottest chilli pepper is the Carolina Reaper, grown by Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Company (USA), which rates at an average of 1,641,183 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), according to tests conducted by Winthrop University in South Carolina, USA, throughout 2017.The Scoville Heat Unit (SHU) scale is a method of quantifying a substance's 'spiciness', through determining the concentration of the chemical compounds responsible for the sensation, which are named capsaicinoids.

For a complete list of 2017 records, please visit 2017 Guinness Records in United States.

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