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Incredibly Hot Chili Pepper Discovered

The Associated Press reports that a man named Paul Bosland has discovered the hottest chili pepper in the world. The chili reaches 1,001,304 Scoville heat units on the Scovilli scale of chili hotness. The average jalepeno is just 10,000 Scoville heat units according to the AP. The AP says the new chili has been confirmed as the world's hottest by Guiness World Records.

The Guinness World Records agreed, confirming recently that Bosland, a regents professor at New Mexico State University, had discovered the world's hottest chili pepper, Bhut Jolokia, a naturally occurring hybrid native to the Assam region of northeastern India.

The name translates as ghost chili, Bosland said.

"We're not sure why they call it that, but I think it's because the chili is so hot, you give up the ghost when you eat it," he said.

Bhut Jolokia comes in at 1,001,304 Scoville heat units, a measure of hotness for a chili. It is nearly twice as hot as Red Savina, the variety it replaces as the hottest.

Even though they are still discovering new ones chili peppers have been around for a while. They even rocked the ancient world according to CNN.

Posted on February 26, 2007

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