The past twenty years have seen an explosion of new, super-hot hybrid peppers. Turn up the heat and learn the score with our top ten hottest peppers list.
#10: Ghost Pepper: 1,000,000 Scoville heat units (SHUs)
#9: Barrackpore: 1,300,00 SHUs
#8. Naga Viper: 1,350,000 SHUs Photo Credit: WiKhioter / Wikipedia
#1. Pepper X: 3,018,000 Photo Credit: First We Feast via YouTube
So there you have it, fact-seekers. The ten hottest peppers known to human beings thus far. The jalapeno claim to fame just dimmed a bit, didn’t it? So much for bragging to my friends about that habanero I ate… Well, at least we still have our stomach lining. Small favors, right?
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