Carolina reaper is a super pepper cultivated by Ed Currie, a farmer in South Carolina, USA, which is 300 times hotter than ordinary pepper. Although it is called the hottest pepper in the world, this pepper is named carolina reaper, which is a hybrid variety.
As of 20 12, it was recognized as the hottest pepper in the world by Guinness World Records Certification Agency.
Detection method: scovill's hot degree detection method is to dilute the pepper juice until it can't taste hot, and 2.2 million units means to dilute the pepper juice 2.2 million times to completely neutralize the hot degree.