Naga Viper pepper [ capsicum chinense- Bhut Jolokia ] known as 'Nago Moricha' in Assam is rated as the hottest pepper at present with 1382118 -Scoville Heat units (SHU) on Feburary 25, 2011.
No, the jalapeno pepper is not the hottest pepper in the world. It's said to be the Naga Viper pepper with a rating of 1,382,11_ Scoville Heat Units.
The Naga Jolokia pepper, it has a rating of 1,041,427 units on the Scoville scale. See the link I will place below.
Naga Viper pepper was created in 2010.
The Scoville rating of Calabrian pepper is around 25,000 to 40,000 Scoville Heat Units, indicating a moderate level of spiciness.
The Scoville rating of Calabrian peppers ranges from 25,000 to 40,000 Scoville Heat Units, indicating a moderate level of spiciness.
The Scoville rating of Chipotle Red Chili Salsa is around 1,500 to 2,500 Scoville Heat Units.
The Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper was rated as the hottest chili in the world by Guinness World Records in 2011. With an average Scoville Heat Unit rating of over 1.4 million, it gained widespread recognition for its extreme spiciness.
The Naga Viper Pepper has been recently named the "World's Hottest Chili" by the Guinness World Records. It has a 1,300,000 rating on the Scoville Scale and beats the previously highest rated pepper, Naga Bhut Jolokia or Ghost Pepper, by 300,000.
The highest rating on the chili Scoville scale is 2,200,000 Scoville Heat Units, achieved by the Carolina Reaper chili pepper.
the hottest chili in the world is the Naga Viper it is so HOT!
The Scoville scale measures the spiciness of peppers by quantifying the amount of capsaicin, the compound responsible for heat, in a pepper. The higher the Scoville rating, the spicier the pepper is considered to be.
The spiciness rating for the chipotle pepper, according to the Scoville rating, ranges from 3,000 to 10,000. The chipotle pepper is considered by the scale to be hot.