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It has an average rating of 2,693,000 Scoville Heat Units.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 you, but that’s not the case anymore. Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper grower (and apparently a full-time spice masochist), has just claimed a Guinness World Record for Pepper X, a fiery hot pepper that is so spicy, it makes his Carolina Reapers look borderline harmless. According to Guinness, Pepper X, which,...

VIDEO AT LINK.................. Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The Carolina Reaper is no longer the hottest chili pepper in the world, after the same grower unveiled Pepper X. Carolina Reapers average 1.64 million Scoville Heat Units, while Pepper X rates an average 2,693,000 SHU, a team at South Carolina's Winthrop University determined. Jalapeño peppers typically come in at 3,000 to 8,000 SHU. Guinness World Records announced Pepper X is now officially the world's hottest chili pepper. Ed Currie, founder of Puckerbutt Pepper Company and creator of the Carolina Reaper pepper, unveiled Pepper X on popular YouTube channel First We Feast. He...