How hot is the hottest pepper in the world?

which is the hottest chili in the world and how hot is it?

at this stage, the hottest chili in the world is said to be 2.48 million SHU. This chili has a very middle-second name: "Dragon\ & # 39 wits Breath". However, it should be noted that the cultivation of new varieties of chili continues, and the spicy record may continue to be refreshed. Carolina death pepper, Indian ghost pepper, and so on are also super hot varieties.

this is the legendary dragon breath chili pepper

what does this spicy value mean? To illustrate this point, we must first talk about how spiciness is measured. The full name of the unit of hot pepper SHU is the unit of the hot degree of Scoville. Its most primitive measurement depends on human taste: take a large number of dried chili peppers, extract them with alcohol, and gradually add sugar water to the extract to dilute it until the person in charge of the taste can't taste the spicy taste. The amount of sugar required to dilute determines the value of spiciness, while those that do not need to be diluted or taste spicy, such as sweet peppers, are 0.

of course, this original method is so subjective that it is no longer in use. Modern methods use high-performance liquid chromatography to measure capsaicin directly, but it is still converted into SHU units.

the spicy degree of millions of SHUs is very terrible. We should know that the hot pepper we can eat every day is only a few hundred to a few thousand, and tens of thousands of spicy ones are already very hot. There is an article describing that eating super hot peppers with millions of degrees is like "eating molten magma." although I would like to complain about how you could have eaten molten magma, this feeling should be able to be conveyed.

(Internet celebrity spicy instant noodles "turkey noodles" is 4404SHU, twice the spicy version is 8808SHU, the latter is my limit.

capsaicin acts on the TRPV1 receptor, which is usually activated at a temperature above 43 ℃ or stimulated by acid, and chili peppers give people a similar burning sensation.

when it comes to eating spicy food, humans can be said to be very strange mammals. Although many people stay away from chili peppers, there are still a large number of chili enthusiasts who can't stop feeling the pain of burning.

Why is it so strange to say that you love spicy things? Because the existence of capsaicin is probably to drive away mammals. Eating chili fruit by mammals is a bad thing for these plants because chili seeds can be chewed up by our teeth, which is not conducive to speed transmission.

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originally, capsaicin is quite effective in driving away mammals, and it has been found that mice, dogs, or other mammals generally avoid eating spicy food. Birds, on the other hand, do not chew seeds or feel capsaicin, so they can happily eat chili peppers as fruit and help spread their seeds.

(birds say there is no pressure to eat chili peppers)

but chili peppers probably wouldn't have thought that humans, as mammals, should have fallen in love with this feeling and happily bred them into a variety of N multi-biological weapons.

on the Internet, we can always see people giving up their lives to challenge millions of hot chili peppers, but I suggest you try it carefully. Not only is the process painful, but chili peppers that are too hot may also bring some other risks. For example, there has been such a case: after challenging the super hot pepper, the person concerned vomited violently, resulting in a rupture of the esophagus, which was also very unlucky.

if you don't like spicy food, drinking milk can effectively relieve it (of course, millions of degrees of spiciness can't be easily relieved). Simply drinking water to relieve the spicy effect is not good, this is because capsaicin is a fat-soluble molecule, not easy to be taken away by water.

but I still like chili peppers! Hot pepper and coffee are the two basic elements of a good life.