Ranked as one of the hottest peppers in the world, and a former world champion for the hottest pepper spot, Ghost Peppers are not a chili pepper to mess around with. Also known as Bhut Jolokia and originating from Northeast India, it's a pepper that's a long time favorite among chileheads.
Ghost Peppers Scoville
In the world of peppers, the heat of a pepper is measured based on the Scoville scale. The more Scoville heat units (SHU) that a pepper has, the spicier it is. For example, the bell pepper has zero SHU, while jalapeño and chipotle peppers measure 10,000 SHU each.
The ghost pepper measures a whopping 1,041,427 SHU! Individual ghost peppers may measure more or less SHU, but this is the widely accepted average. It was the very first pepper to measure over a million SHU.
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