Ranked as the Guinness World Record’s hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper peaked at about 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units, the scale used to rank how spicy peppers are.
the Carolina Reaper which averaged 1,641,183 SHU. In 1912 pharmacist Wilbur Scoville invented the Scoville Scale, which measures how many times capsaicin needs to be diluted. Capsaicin is the ...
The truth is, however, that the peppers you've tried are probably far milder than the peppers that reach the top of the Scoville scale ... highest SHU was the Carolina Reaper.