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Apparently, there is a new champion, in the world of extremely hot chili peppers, Fox News reports.
The Guinness Book of Records recently proclaimed Pepper X as the world’s hottest chili pepper beating out the previous champion, the Carolina Reaper, by over one million SHUs.
Apparently, the hotness of chili peppers is measured by something called Scoville heat units or SHU, and Pepper X came in a 2.69 million SHU compared to only 1.64 million SHU for the Carolina Reaper.
It’s all math, but according to the report, this means that Pepper X is three times hotter than the Carolina Reaper. It also means that Pepper X is more potent than pepper spray and bear spray.
As a comparison, cayenne pepper, which I personally find unbearably spicy, ranges between 30,000 to 50,000 SHU, and Jalapeños between 2,500 to 8,000 SHU.
According to the reports only five people in the world have dared to eat Pepper X which was ten years in development.
One individual who tried it stated that he experienced horrible hour-long stomach cramps that were so severe he couldn’t stand and was feeling the heat for three and a half hours afterward.
One person summed up the new record-holding pepper by joking that there was a “sick, twisted mind behind Pepper X.”
READ: New Guinness World Record spiciest pepper, ‘Pepper X,’ is three times as spicy as Carolina Reaper






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