Ghost pepper
Chili pepper cultivated in Northeast India / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The ghost pepper,[2][3] also known as bhüt jolokia (lit. 'Bhutanese pepper' or 'Ghost pepper' in Assamese[4]), is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in Northeast India.[5][6] It is a hybrid of Capsicum chinense and Capsicum frutescens.[7]
Ghost pepper | |
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Hybrid parentage | Capsicum chinense × Capsicum frutescens |
Origin | Northeast India (especially in Assam, Manipur and Nagaland)[1] |
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 However, in the race to grow the hottest chili pepper, the ghost chili was superseded by the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper in 2011, the Carolina Reaper in 2013 and Pepper X in 2023.[8]