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The Naga Morich, with around 1 million SHU, [2] is primarily grown in India and Bangladesh. The Scoville scale is a measurement of pungency (spiciness or "heat") of chili peppers and other substances, recorded in Scoville heat units (SHU). It is based on the concentration of capsaicinoids, among which capsaicin is the predominant component.
Wilbur Lincoln Scoville (January 22, 1865 – March 10, 1942) was an American pharmacist best known for his creation of the "Scoville Organoleptic Test", now standardized as the Scoville scale. He devised the test and scale in 1912 while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company to measure pungency , "spiciness" or "capsaicin ...
Northeast India (especially in Assam, Manipur and Nagaland) [ 1] Heat. Exceptionally hot. Scoville scale. 1,001,304 SHU. The ghost pepper, [ 2][ 3] also known as bhüt jolokia ( { {lit.'Ghost pepper' in Assamese [ 4] ), is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in Northeast India. [ 5][ 6] It is a hybrid of Capsicum chinense and ...
Hottest chili pepper. Mature Carolina Reaper, listed by Guinness as the hottest chili pepper from 2017-2023. Amongst growers in the US, the UK, and Australia, there has been a competition since the 1990s to grow the hottest chili pepper. Chili pepper species and cultivars registering over 1,000,000 Scoville Heat units (SHU) are called "super-hots".
It is usually a hot chili pepper used to flavor dishes. Cayenne peppers are a group of tapering, 10 to 25 cm long, generally skinny, mostly red-colored peppers, often with a curved tip and somewhat rippled skin, which hang from the bush as opposed to growing upright. Most varieties are generally rated at 30,000 to 50,000 Scoville units.
New Mexico. Heat. Hot. Scoville scale. 0–100,000 [ 2] SHU. New Mexico chile or New Mexican chile (Scientific name: Capsicum annuum 'New Mexico Group'; Spanish: chile de Nuevo México, [ 3] chile del norte) [ 4] is a cultivar group [ 5] of the chile pepper from the US state of New Mexico, first grown by Pueblo and Hispano communities ...
UK. Heat. Exceptionally hot. Scoville scale. 1,300,000 SHU. The Armageddon chili pepper is the world's first F1 [a] 'Super Hot' chili pepper. [2] It is a hybrid of C. chinense and C. frutescens. Armageddon was developed by hot pepper grower and developer, Salvatore Genvoese of the UK. It was introduced to the UK market in 2019.
Scotch bonnet (also known as Bonney peppers, or Caribbean red peppers) [1] is a variety of chili pepper named for its supposed resemblance to a Scottish tam o' shanter bonnet. [2] [3] It is ubiquitous in West Africa and the Caribbean. Like the closely related habanero, Scotch bonnets have a heat rating of 100,000–350,000 Scoville units. [4]