Which is the spiciest chili pepper?

The Carolina Reaper is the spiciest chili pepper on earth. Bred by researchers in South Carolina and confirmed a couple years ago to be the world’s spiciest at Winthrop University, the Carolina Reaper was bred for heat and heat alone. Topping out at 2,200,000 Scovilles, this pepper actually has a pleasing, sweet and fruity flavor. As opposed to most other peppers, which take a second to kick in, the Carolina Reaper rears its ugly head immediately, and once it does you’ll be descending to the depths of chili pepper hell. The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion measures at 2,009,000 Scovilles, Brain Strain at about 1.9 million Scoville units and 7 Pot Douglah is about 1,850,000 Scovilles. The Scoville scale is a measurement of the pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy foods as reported in Scoville heat units (SHU), a function of capsaicin concentration.

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M. Baker

I have tasted a scorpion, ghost pepper and carolina reaper and the reaper is by far the hottest! They can be enjoyed if you like spicy food, but in minute amounts otherwise you'll endure some pain!!!

Cheryl McMeekin

I'll never eat chilly peppers that hot, they're not even enjoyable when that hot.

First&Formost

too spicy

TSH

Food should not hurt!

Player

There's not enough milk in the world to enable me to try one of these.

Rob Orr

How on earth do you know it has a 'pleasing, sweet and fruity flavor'??

Anita Clark Morton

I can barely tolerate Jalapeno peppers, which apparently is not even in the same class as these.

William Laughlin

Leslie Anthony, Your problem is that you are using Wikipedia, a site known to be inaccurate compared to actual encyclopedia sites such as Britannica. Wikipedia entries can be made without vetting, by almost anyone.