“” There are several different types of people who are attracted to eating super-hot peppers. mikroman6/Getty Images You may have seen one of those crazed contests on YouTube or at a fair where people “compete” to eat as many hot peppers as possible. For instance, in May 2017, a competitive eater who goes by the name LA Beast set a Guinness World Record for eating the most ghost peppers in two minutes — 13. Ghost peppers, for those of you that don’t know, are some of the hottest in the world and rate 1 million per pepper on the Scoville heat scale (a scientific measure of how hot a pepper is). To put things in perspective, that’s at least 100 times hotter than a jalapeño, which ranks anywhere between about 2,500 and 8,000 Scoville units. But ghost peppers aren’t even the hottest. That honor officially belongs to the Carolina Reaper, which earned its title as the hottest pepper in the world — beating out a pepper called the Trinidad Scorpion — in 2013. Carolina Reapers rate 2.2 million on the Scoville heat scale. “” The hottest known pepper to date on the Scoville scale is the Carolina Reaper. Julie eshaies/Shutterstock… Read full this story
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