When South Carolina's Ed Currie first tasted freshly bred Pepper X, it didn't just warm his heart, in his own words. Its cultivation efforts have resulted in this variety being hotter than ever.
The spiciness of chilies is measured in Scoville units (SHU). This shows the large amount of capsaicin, the plant alkaloid that causes chilies. The famous jalapeño pepper reaches 2.5 to 10 thousand SHU, while in regular restaurants we tend to find jalapeños at the lower limit, which is around three thousand SHU.
In contrast, the current record holder, the Carolina Reaper, according to Guinness World Records has an average heat of 1.64 million SHU, but it is generally reported that these peppers typically have 2.1-2.2 million SHU.
However, Pepper AP Agency For comparison, it says police pepper spray is around 1.6 million SHU, while bear spray tends to be 2.2 million SHU.
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Ed Currie explains the power of the Pepper X model from his own experience. He is one of five people who have ever eaten this pepper whole. “For three and a half hours I felt hot and had severe cramps. “I lay in the rain against a marble wall for about an hour and groaned in pain,” he described the unusual and not entirely pleasant experience.
Pepper And this pepper is also the basic ingredient for Pepper X. Ed crossed it with other varieties, but it remains a secret. “This is a pepper that a friend from Michigan sent me and it's very hot,” he didn't want to reveal more.
The result in the form of Lada It takes about the same amount of time to verify whether it really is a brand new plant, so Ed Currie only got his second recorded entry on October 9th this year.
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