Pepper X measures an average of 2.693 million Scoville Heat Units. A jalapeño, by comparison, measures just 2,000 to 8,000 SHUs, while a serrano can land between 10,000 and 23,000 SHUs.

Pepper X, which has a rating of 2,693,000 Scoville Heat Units was named hottest chili pepper in the world by Guinness World Records on Oct. 9.

At 2.693 million Scoville Heat Units, Pepper X is the new world's hottest pepper. See how it compares to previous Guinness World Records winners.

Called Pepper X, the pepper’s rating averages 2,693,000 million units on the Scoville scale measured as Scoville Heat Units (SHU). The SHU is a measurement of capsaicinoids in peppers.

According to Guinness, Pepper X, which, like the Carolina Reaper, was developed by Currie and his PuckerButt Pepper Company, has an average rating of 2,693,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). That ...

With a spiciness level of 2.693 million Scoville heat units (SHU) on average, Pepper X handily unseated the previous hottest pepper on Earth, the Carolina Reaper—also bred by Currie, who founded ...

The SHU scale to measure chili pepper heat was developed by American chemist Wilbur Scoville in 1912. By comparison, the average jalapeño pepper scores between 3,000 to 8,000 SHU, according to ...

The pungency (or heat factor) of chile peppers is measured in multiples of 100 units. It ranges from sweet bell peppers at zero to the mighty Naga Jolokia (ghost pepper) at over 1,000,000 Scoville ...

Scoville's Innovation Has Gone In A Surprising Direction Today, the Scoville scale may be an eye-catching way to mark the heat of a pepper, but it's not the most useful way to measure capsaicin in ...

It rated at an average of 2,693,000 Scoville Heat Units. For comparison, a Carolina Reaper averages 1.64 million Scoville Heat Units and a jalapeño is around 3,000 to 8,000 Scoville Heat Units.