Which is hotter, Indian magic pepper or Yunnan pepper?

Generally speaking, Indian devil pepper is spicy. However, some studies show that the devil pepper in India and the pepper in Yunnan are probably the same variety (see/html/20083319452-1.html).

Some information about two kinds of peppers:

Indian devil pepper: the hottest pepper in the world

There is a kind of pepper in the mountains of northeast India. Because it is extremely spicy, the locals call it "devil pepper". In February this year, this pepper was recognized as the hottest pepper in the world by Guinness World Records.

"Devil Pepper" is famous for its spicy taste. The spicy degree exceeds 654.38+00,000 "Shi Gao Bi Er", which was confirmed by Guinness as the hottest pepper in the world. "Shigaobil" is the unit of spiciness of pepper, which is generally considered as the hottest Mexican red pepper, and its spiciness is only 65438+100000 "Shigaobil". In addition to eating, "devil pepper" is also commonly used to treat stomach diseases and relieve summer heat in the local area.

In 2006, the "Instant Pepper" produced in Luxi City, Dehong Prefecture was sent to the Institute of Food Science of Hunan Agricultural University for testing. It was found that each unit of "Instant Pepper" contained 444 10.33 million units of "scovill", and its spicy degree exceeded10, which was identified as the highest spicy variety reported in China.

The unit used to express heat is the scovill unit. Pepper is spicy because it contains capsaicin; As early as 19 12, the pharmacist Wilbur Scoville invented a method to determine capsaicin content, that is, how many times to dilute pepper with water, so that the tip of the tongue does not feel spicy; The more water you need to dilute the pepper, the hotter it is. At present, the basic unit for measuring spicy degree is named after this.

The spiciness of pepper can range from more than 300,000 scovill units to 0 without spiciness at all; There are about 200,000 to 300,000 scovill units in Havana and 65,438+10,000 to 300,000 scovill units in Scotch pepper. Habanero from Mexico, Cuba and Chile in Central America is as high as 65438+ Wanskoville units, while Bell Pepper from the Netherlands and the United States is zero.

India has discovered a devil pepper, which is more than 6000 times hotter than the hottest Mexican pepper in the world. So far, no one can challenge to eat a whole pepper.

Conversion table of spicy degree and scovill heat unit (Shu)

Scovill thermal unit (Shu)

Level 1 0–500

Middle school 500- 1000

Level 3 1000- 1500

Level 4 1500-2500

Level 5: 2500-5000

Level 6 5000- 15000

Level 7 15000-30000

Level 8 30000-50000

Grade 9 50000- 100000

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