In February 2007, this pepper was recognized as the hottest pepper in the world by Guinness World Records. After becoming famous overnight, "devil pepper" quickly swept the world. It is a common food on the table of local residents. Locals believe that this kind of pepper is extremely spicy enough to scare away the devil, so it is called "devil pepper".
Main value
In addition to eating, "devil pepper" is also commonly used to treat stomach diseases and relieve summer heat in the local area.
It is generally believed that patients with stomach diseases dislike spicy food most, but a kind of pepper produced in India is a good medicine for stomach diseases. This kind of red pepper, which grows in the mountains of Assam in northeastern India, is called "devil pepper" because of its extremely spicy thumb. The local people can't live without this kind of pepper for every meal. Like Shandong people, red peppers are rolled into cakes and eaten raw.
Although this kind of pepper is commonplace for locals, foreigners will still be "afraid of three points." On one occasion, the reporter bought a catty of dried "devil pepper" in the vegetable market, took a bite when eating it, and his tears and nose flowed out, and he dared not eat any more.