Did you know The hottest pepper in the world ?
Carolina Reaper is a type of hot pepper from the Capsicum chinens family. It originates from the village of Rock Hill, South Carolina, by a man named Ed Curry, who runs a pepper company located in the village of Fort Mill, South Carolina. It has been named the hottest pepper in the world by Guinness World Records since August 7, 2013. The average heat intensity of this pepper reaches 1,539,300 degrees on the Scoville scale, and sometimes it may reach more than 2,200,000 degrees on the Scoville scale.
Scoville: A unit of measurement for estimating the pungency of peppers
And so that you can understand the intensity of the heat
A regular pepper is about 5,000 Scoville, meaning that the Carolina is about 4,400 times the size of the regular chili pepper found in our homes.
Carolina, or ghost, once ingested, is capable of disrupting the movement of the jaws, burning the tongue, and sometimes giving a person a stroke and a hole in the throat, to the point that preparing it for cooking requires protective masks and clothing similar to chemical warfare clothing. Doctors began to warn against eating it after the spread of spicy eating competitions, after a famous incident involving a citizen. A 47-year-old American man ate peppers and suffered severe pain in the head and neck and headaches called thunderclap headaches.
Which represents an emergency due to a brain hemorrhage or stroke, but it was later discovered that the man’s esophagus was punctured with a hole 2.5 cm in diameter.