If you’ve ever choked down a piece of Carolina Reaper pepper or sweated your way through a splash of Carolina Reaper hot sauce because it was “the hottest pepper in the world,” we hate to break it to ...

A new pepper three times hotter than the previous Guinness World Record holder hit the market this week. Pepper X rates at an average of 2.693 million Scoville Heat Units (SHU), a measure of pungency ...

A new world-record holder has entered the field of hot peppers: Pepper X. This proprietary pepper, bred by Ed Currie, was recognized in October 2023 by Guinness World Records as the hottest pepper ...