The world's top 5 hottest chillies
According to positioning on the scale, here are the world's 5 hottest chillies:
1. Naga Jokia: This variety comes from India and is also known as the ghost pepper. It is small and crinkled, but packs a strong punch! it has the SHU of 855,000 to 1,041,427. It contains the purest form of capsiacin.
2. Red Savina: There are various other cousins of the Naga with all the derivatives names beginning with Naga but when we move to the next category of the hottest chillies in the world, then it has to be this one. Small, red, crinkled and also was supposed to be the hottest pepper in the world at SHU of 350,000 to 577,000 until the Ghost pepper came along.
3. Scotch Bonnet Pepper: This one is more like a full bodied capsicum but do not mistake it for what it look like! This chilli can totally numb your taste buds. With a SHU of 250,000, it is essentially Caribbean by origin and most frequently found in dishes from that region.
4. Pequin Pepper: This tiny flower bud like chilli is also known as the Bird pepper. It looks like a rounded flower bud but bite into it and it has no resemblance to sweet smelling flowers. It stands at 100,000-140,000 SHU and comes from the Great basin of Mexico.
5. Guntur Chilli: Guntur is a small district in India that produces a dozen varieties of this chilli all in between 30,000–50,000, very edible, but only in relative terms when compared to the above!
Source: www.boldsky.com