Ranked as the Guinness World Record’s hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper peaked at about 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units, the scale used to rank how spicy peppers are.
the Carolina Reaper which averaged 1,641,183 SHU. In 1912 pharmacist Wilbur Scoville invented the Scoville Scale, which measures how many times capsaicin needs to be diluted. Capsaicin is the ...
The Carolina Reaper, which can top 2.2m on the Scoville heat scale, was the world’s hottest pepper at the time of the incident in 2016 – although new breeds called Pepper X and Dragon’s ...
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What Is the "Spiciest" Spice for Cooking?
The spiciest spice for cooking is Carolina Reaper ... we’ll use the Scoville Heat Unit (SHU) rating, which rates peppers, hot ...
The truth is, however, that the peppers you've tried are probably far milder than the peppers that reach the top of the Scoville scale ... highest SHU was the Carolina Reaper.