What Happens If You Eat the World's Hottest Pepper: You May Develop a Hole in Your Esophagus
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the hottest pepper in the world is the Carolina Reaper variety, which has red fruits.
In the table of hotness of peppers created by the American chemist Wilbur Scoville, its spiciness fluctuates between 1.5 and 2.3 million points.
It is likely that due to this variability, the results of eating hot peppers may vary.
What Happens When You Eat Very Hot Peppers
The hottest pepper in the world is often used in a variety of competitions, challenges, sweepstakes, etc.
As a result, participants in such events receive not only worldwide fame, but also damage to internal organs.
For example, a participant in one of the competitions was “rewarded” with reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome. The narrowing of the arteries led to the man suffering from pain in his head and neck. Fortunately, the syndrome went away over time.
But an experiment by a 47-year-old man with the fruits of the Naga Jolokia variety (its pungency, by the way, is 855-1500 points) led to much more serious consequences.
The contestant did not eat the peppers in their pure form, but ate a burger with a spicy additive, after which a hole appeared in his esophagus.
