Pepper X is now the hottest pepper in the world, surpassing the previous record-holder Carolina Reaper, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Pepper X, pictured above, is now the hottest pepper in the world, surpassing the previous record-holder Carolina Reaper pepper, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Pepper X has an average rating of 2.693 million Scoville Heat Units, the official metric used to measure a pepper’s spiciness or heat. A Carolina Reaper pepper, meanwhile, measures at an average rating of 1.64 million SHU. A jalapeño, for additional context, is on average between 3,000 and 8,000 SHU.
Currie cultivated Pepper X on his farm over a 10-year period, cross-breeding the pepper with some of his hottest peppers to increase its capsaicin content, the active component of chili peppers. He cross-breeds more than 100 peppers each year, hoping just one or two will make it through the 10-year cultivation and development cycle, according to Guinness.
With Pepper X and Carolina Reaper as Currie’s claims to fame, he’s already working on creating a pepper even hotter than those two, per Guinness. “If we get desirable traits, like high indices of capsaicinoids we’re looking for, then we’ll keep on going on the cross,” Currie told. “If it doesn’t work, then we gotta start all over again, and it’s a very time-consuming, very long process.”If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.
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