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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, reported on April 24 a special call from a village in Dorset, England called "Ocean Spring" The Naga pepper produced on the farm was recently recognized by the American Spice Trade Association as the hottest red pepper in the world, and the owner of the farm is planning to apply for the Guinness World Record.

According to reports, the breeders Michaud and his wife must wear gloves when handling this kind of pepper. Most people will burst into tears immediately if they smell the spiciness of this kind of pepper. Customers of the farm said that when making curry paste, using half a Naga chili pepper would make the paste too spicy to eat. The owner of a restaurant said that many customers claim to be particularly spicy, but they can only "taste a little bit" of Naga chili because it is so spicy that it "can almost stop the brain from thinking."

The spiciness of chili peppers is expressed in "Scoville" units. The hottest chili pepper recorded in the Guinness World Records is Savannah red pepper, with a spiciness of 57.7 million "Scoville" units. . The two hotness test results of Naga chili peppers were 87.6 million "Scoville" units and 97 million "Scoville" units respectively.