The hardest pepper in the world "Carolina · Reaper" is discovered

ByShaun Amey

I gathered the world's best recordGuinness World Record"The World's Hottest Pepper" certified, currently reigning in that seat was approved in 2011Trinidad · Scorpion · Butch · Tayloris. This is a spicy chilli that can not be cooked without protective clothing, but it was discovered in the United States that this hot pepper, which exceeds this Trinidad · Scorpion · Butch · Taylor.

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The name of the capsicum is "Carolina Reaper (Carolina · Reaper)". This pepper cultivated by Ed Currie is a unit to measure the spicyness of chili peppersScoville valueHas reached about 3 million Scoville, and it is far ahead of Trinidad Scorpion Butchi Taylor's Scoville value of 1,463,700. Because the Scoville value of "Habanero" well known as spicy chili is about 350,000 Scovilles maximum, I can only understand that the spicyness of Carolina Reaper is of an unimaginable level. It has a rugged appearance and it is stingy red when it is ripe, but on the contrary its redness seems to symbolize spicyness.


In the first place Hawai'i Nero of spicy capsicum boom is getting the best title in the world 20 years ago, the Scoville value is about 570,000 Scovelville. At that time, it was believed that "You can not produce more hot pepper", but then it entered the world's first "Super Hot" area (Scoville value is over 1 million)Boot JoloquiaWas discovered and even after thatInfinity · Chile(1.6 million Scoville) andNaga Viper Pepper(1.38 million Scoville), and about 1.5 million Scoville Trinidad · Scorpion · Butch · Taylor and many spicy chili peppers have been discovered.

Under such circumstances, some people always try harder capsicum seeds like the community called "Chiliheads" to challenge growing spicy chili, so there are also people who aim for the cash-over money. Especially in the USA, there are many dealers selling seeds saying "This is the hardest chili peppers in the world". However, it is not such a purpose that Currie cultivates Carolina · Reaper. Currie is sometimes used as an enemy for a community that cultivates hot pepper for a while, but the real reason seems to be related to pepper cultivation from his family line. As a result of the study, Currie in the family of heart attacks and cancer found that eating hardships has the effect of lowering the risk of disease, so we started cultivating capsicum. Currie says "This is a" gift "given by God."

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In addition, the Guinness World Record 's "The World's Hottest Pepper Crisis" section is said to have received applications from a large number of capsicums, as a result the certification work can not keep up and the title of the world's hardest chili is " It is said that it is becoming "state". Furthermore, there are two methods for measuring the Scoville value, one is to take the mean value of capsicum cultivated over a certain period of time and the other to measure spicy from one individual, which causes confusion It seems to be.

Even if it says "Hot sweetness more than five times that of habanero," Carolina · Reaper who can not imagine that it is a level of pain that can not be felt suddenly, and is caught up in an unexpected riot, but Guinness's misunderstood It will be.

ByClotte Allochuku