The top ten hottest peppers in the world, so spicy that you will faint!

An American man once tried to eat the world's hottest pepper and fainted from the spiciness after eating a piece the size of a fingernail. The spiciness of peppers is measured in Scoville units. What is the hottest pepper in the world? Ranked by spiciness, the editor will reveal the hottest peppers in the world.

10. Shaanxi Pepper 15,000 SHU

This type of pepper is called string pepper because of its slender shape and is very common in the country.

9. Shipka Pepper 5,000-30,000 SHU

Because it is said to have been smuggled across the Iron Curtain in Bulgaria and looks like a carrot, this pepper is also called the "Bulgarian carrot." As it matures, it turns from green to yellow and finally to a color similar to that of a carrot.

8. Chicken Heart Pepper 28,000-30,000 SHU

The chicken heart pepper is shaped like a chicken heart and has a moderate spiciness. It is very common in the country. However, you rarely see whole chili peppers because many of them are ground into chili powder.

7. Yunnan Chili 30,000-50,000 SHU

Yunnan’s chili peppers come in both red and yellow varieties. The red ones can be dried and eaten, and the yellow ones can be pickled into the legendary pickled peppers.

6. Pepper 50,000-100,000 SHU

The chili pepper gets its name because its fruit grows toward the sky. When immature, it is green, white, purple and other colors, and when ripe, it is red, so it is also called colorful pepper. There is no need to introduce too much about this kind of pepper that is familiar to people all over the country.

5. Tepin pepper 70,000-100,000 SHU

Tepin pepper has no Chinese translation, but it is called "bird's eye" or simply "bird pepper" in Türkiye because wild Tepin relies on birds to spread its seeds. Tepin

Native to southern North America and northern South America, it is spicy enough but doesn't last too long.

4. White Habanero 100,000-350,000 SHU

This white chili is said to have originated in Peru. In addition to being spicy enough, it also has a unique smoky flavor.

3. Trinidad Scorpion CARID 800,000-1,000,000 SHU

This pepper is native to Trinidad. The base of the pepper is shaped like a scorpion's tail. The suffix CARID is added to distinguish it from the ordinary Trinidad scorpion pepper. Compared with the former, CARID

It is larger, thicker, and orange-yellow instead of red.

2. Yunnan Hotpot Spicy 1,000,000 SHU

Shuan Shuan La is a kind of pepper grown in the mountainous area of ​​Luxi City, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. It is small in size, with wrinkled skin, and turns bright red when ripe, with a strong spicy smell. The locals call it shua shua la because as long as you rinse it in water, the whole basin of water will become spicy.

1. Carolina Reaper 1,569,383-2,200,000 SHU

On November 14, 2013, the Carolina Reaper broke the Guinness World Records as the hottest pepper in the world. American farmer Ed Carey spent 10

After years of hard work, he finally cultivated the "weapon-quality pepper" he had always dreamed of - the average spiciness of the Carolina Reaper is higher than that of police pepper spray.