Ranked as the Guinness World Record’s hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper peaked at about 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units, the scale used to rank how spicy peppers are.

dethroning the Carolina Reaper chili pepper after 10 years. For comparison, a habanero pepper typically hits 100,000 Scoville heat units, but Pepper X registers at 2.69 million units. Breeder and ...

Pepper X comes in at nearly 2.7 million Scoville units, compared to the previously-hottest Carolina Reaper, which landed at 1.64 million. The scale has been around since 1912. It was invented by ...