The Habanero pepper has a maximum hotness of 350,000 Scoville Heat Units. That’s nothing—like eating an Altoid—compared to the mouth-searing Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. It tops out at over two million SHU and has just been named the world’s hottest pepper.
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