Mature Carolina Reaper, as of August 2019 listed by Guinness as the hottest chili pepper. The Armageddon, on sale in Tesco, is more than 400 times hotter than the jalapeno. World's hottest chilli The Carolina Reaper delivers an average of 1,569,300 Scoville Heat Units (SHU) As a comparison jalapeno peppers score between 2,500 to 8,000 SHU Pepper species and cultivars registering over 1,000,000 Scoville Heat units (SHU) are called "super-hots". It can be used sparingly in cooking but folk ar… Guinness World Records 2020 winner: Carolina Reaper! A NEW British chilli is tipped to become the hottest in the world. For a brief 2 weeks in 2011, the Infinity pepper held the Guinness Book of World Records title as the hottest pepper in the world, before being replaced by the Naga Viper. The winner of the Guinness World Records is the Carolina Reaper HP22B with 2,200,000 on the Scoville scale. In fact, it is rich in vitamins and antioxidants that help you stay young. 1,382,118 SHU Briefly the world’s hottest chilli in 2011, the Viper is a hybrid of other super-hots, including the Ghost Chilli and the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. What do you think is 2019's spiciest chilli in the world? What is the hottest chilli in the world? A tiny nibble of the British pepper would bring you out in sweats – although it can taste fruity if you use a small amount in cooking. It stole the crown from the ghost pepper, and it’s easy to see that both it and the ghost have been relegated far down the super-hot line since that time. The Scoville Scale is dominated early by chemical compounds such as Resiniferatoxin (16,000,000,000 SHU) – a chemical likely to cause chemical burns on contact with the skin. The Armageddon chilli definitely lives up to its name. The hottest chilli pepper is Smokin Ed's 'Carolina Reaper', grown by Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Company (USA), which rates at an average of 1,641,183 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), according to tests conducted by Winthrop University in South Carolina, USA, throughout 2017. The extra spicy ingredients, which could become the hottest chillies in the world, are currently on sale in Tesco. The race to grow the hottest pepper is an informal competition since the early 1990s among growers of chili peppers primarily in the US, the UK, and Australia, to develop ever-hotter peppers. As you know, the chilli is a very healthy food. The Carolina Reaper (2,200,000 SHU) is the hottest pepper in the world – ranging from 1,500,000 Scoville Heat Units and peaking at 2,200,000 SHUs.