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World’s hottest pepper grown in South Carolina
Ed Currie of Fort Mill holds a Carolina Reaper pepper as Guinness confirms his peppers are the hottest on Earth by batch HP22B tests at Winthrop University. Pepper heat is tied to capsaicinoids and measured in Scoville units, with Currie’s batch reaching 1,569,300 SHU and individual peppers at 2.2 million.
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Fort Mill
Ed Currie
Guinness Book of World Records
Currie
Winthrop University
Paul Bosland
Chile Pepper Institute
New Mexico State University
Bosland
Usain Bolt
Cliff Calloway
Wilbur Scoville
Calloway
Scoville
Jeffi Collins
Carolina Reaper Peppers