That doesn't quite touch the hottest pepper in the world, South Carolina's Pepper X, which boasts a whopping 2.69 million Scoville heat units, but it does firmly place it in the next tier, blowing ...

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2. Mongoose Hot Sauce This sauce is a 3,000,000 on the ‘Scoville Scale’ (a scale for determining heat in taste) and is 600 times hotter than a jalapeño! 1. Z Nothing Beyond… Quite simply this is ...

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Bell peppers typically clock 0 Scoville heat units (SHU) while jalapeños can be as high as 8000 SHUs, Grey said. Grey did note that "balance is key." ...

Spicy foods and ingredients are usually ranked by what is known as the Scoville Scale. For example, 'Pepper X'—the world's hottest chilli—scores nearly 2.7million on the scale.

Related: Meet Smokin’ Ed Currie: The South Carolina Pepper Farmer who Created the 2 Hottest Peppers on Earth So no, technically, these peppers aren’t less hot; they just seem to taste less hot.