(CNN) — The Carolina Reaper has met its match. Chili Pepper X has captured the spicy record as the world’s hottest, Guinness World Records announced on Monday. The new pepper rates an average of 2.69 million Scoville Heat Units (SHU), according to tests performed by Winthrop University in South Carolina, beating the previous record holder,...
It beat out the Carolina Reaper -- a pepper with a description declaring, "Those who don’t fear the Reaper are fools. It is painfully hot." -- for the Guinness World Records' title.This pepper variety, photographed on Tuesday, October 10, in Fort Mill, South Carolina, is about 1,000 times hotter than the average jalapeño. Chili Pepper X has captured the spicy record as the world’s hottest, Guinness World Records announced on Monday.
Ed Currie holds up certification that his new Pepper X variety of peppers is the hottest in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Currie first presented Pepper X to the world on an episode of the popular YouTube series, “Hot Ones.”
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