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Top 10 Hottest Peppers in the World

The past twenty years have seen an explosion of new, super-hot hybrid peppers. Turn up the heat and learn the score with our top ten hottest peppers list.

#10: Ghost Pepper: 1,000,000 Scoville heat units (SHUs)

#9: Barrackpore: 1,300,00 SHUs

#8. Naga Viper: 1,350,000 SHUs
Photo Credit: WiKhioter / Wikipedia

#7. Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T”: 1,463,700 SHUs
Photo Credit: Kouya / Wikipedia

#6. 7-Pot Douglah: 1,850,000 SHUs

#5. Pot Primo: 1,900,000 SHUs

#4. Brain Strain: 1,900,000 SHUs

#3. Trinidad Moruga Scorpion: 2,009,000 SHUs
Photo Credit: Hankwang / Wikipedia

#2. Carolina Reaper: 2,200,000 SHUs
Photo Credit: Dale Thurber / Wikipedia

#1. Pepper X: 3,018,000
Photo Credit: First We Feast via YouTube

So there you have it, fact-seekers. The ten hottest peppers known to human beings thus far. The jalapeno claim to fame just dimmed a bit, didn’t it? So much for bragging to my friends about that habanero I ate… Well, at least we still have our stomach lining. Small favors, right?

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