Ghost pepper
The ghost pepper, also known as bhut jolokia (lit. 'Bhutan pepper' in Assamese), is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in Northeast India. It is a hybrid of Capsicum chinense and Capsicum frutescens.
| Ghost pepper | |
|---|---|
Red (ripe) and green ghost pepper fruits | |
| Hybrid parentage | Capsicum chinense × Capsicum frutescens |
| Origin | India and Bangladesh
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| Heat | Exceptionally hot |
| Scoville scale | 1,001,304 SHU |
In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the ghost pepper was the world's hottest chili pepper, 170 times hotter than Tabasco sauce. The ghost chili is rated at more than one million Scoville Heat Units (SHUs) and far surpasses the amount of a cayenne pepper. However, in the race to grow the hottest chili pepper, the ghost chili was superseded by the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper in 2011, the Carolina Reaper in 2013 and Pepper X in 2023.
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