What is known about the hottest chili pepper: it is incredibly hot - 2.69 million Scoville units
There is a Scoville scale, which is used to evaluate the degree of spiciness of certain sauces and types of peppers.
The hotness of green Tabasco sauce is estimated at 800 units, which places the liquid seasoning in the “Slightly Hot” category.
Classic Tabasco sauce has a medium hotness - from 2500 to 5000 units.
Cayenne pepper is considered to be hot, with a rating of 30-50 thousand units.
The “Very hot” category includes Jamaican hot peppers (100-200 thousand Scoville units).
And there is a variety of chili pepper that is considered "incredibly hot." We are talking about the Pepper X variety, which is mentioned in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Pepper X variety characteristics
This variety of chili pepper appeared in 2017. The creator of the variety is the American breeder Ed Curry.
The unusual pepper variety was created after several crosses. The result was an incredibly high content of a compound called capsaicin.
The pepper's heat was found to be 2.69 million Scoville units. This is an order of magnitude higher than the heat of Jamaican hot peppers.
However, according to other data, the variety is even hotter - 3.18 SHU.
The unusual feature allowed Pepper X to appear in the Guinness Book of Records in the category of "hottest chili pepper". This happened in the summer of 2023.
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