In 1912, the American Wilbur Scoville created the “Scoville Scale”, which serves to measure the burning amount of a pepper. This gradation is also called “Scoville Heat Units”, translated from the English “SHU” (Scoville Heat Units). To reach an exact value, the pepper is immersed in a solution with water and sugar - the more solution needed to dilute the pepper, the hotter it is.

Check out now the ranking of the 10 most burned peppers in the world:

10 - 7 Pot Jonah

Scoville Heat Units : 1, 200, 000 SHU

Miga get better

9 - 7 Pot Barrackpore

Scoville Heat Units : 1, 300, 000 SHU

Hmmm ... how delicious, man!

8 - 7 Pot Brain Strain

Scoville Heat Units : 1, 350, 000 SHU

Brain

7 - Naga Viper

Scoville Heat Units : 1, 382, 118 SHU

Weaky. SQN.

6 - Komodo Dragon

Scoville Heat Units : 1, 400, 000 SHU

Dead

5 - Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T”

Scoville Heat Units : 1, 463, 700 SHU

Be girls

4 - 7 Pot Primo

Scoville Heat Units : 1, 473, 480 SHU

I want!

3 - 7 Pot Douglah

Scoville Heat Units : 1, 853, 936 SHU

In ** others is refreshment

2 - Trinidad Moruga Scorpion

Scoville Heat Units : 2, 000, 000 SHU

Sambando in the face of the enemies

1 - Carolina Reaper

Scoville Heat Units : 2, 200, 000 SHU

Fagot, you're really destructive, see?

BONUS

To give you an idea, it is good to know that young pepper, very popular in Brazil, has between 5, 000 and 15, 000 SHU. But the pout has only 1, 000 SHU.

* Posted on 6/6/2016

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