BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Reel Worklife Travel Future More menu More menu Search BBC Home News Sport Reel Worklife Travel Future Culture Music TV Weather Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu Home War in Ukraine Climate Video World US & Canada UK Business Tech Science More Entertainment & Arts Health In Pictures BBC Verify World News TV Newsbeat US & Canada Published 1 hour ago Share close panel Share page Copy link About sharing Image source, Heatonist/Julian Bracero By Chloe Kim BBC News The Guinness World Records has crowned Pepper X as the hottest chili pepper in the world, dethroning the Carolina Reaper chili pepper after 10 years. For comparison, a habanero pepper typically hits 100,000 Scoville heat units, but Pepper X registers at 2.69 million units. Breeder and grower Ed Currie created both record-breaking peppers. As a proprietary p...