Pepper X takes the crown for world's spiciest chili; sets taste buds ablaze for three hours!

A blistering chili known as Pepper X from South Carolina has clinched the Guinness World Record for the planet's spiciest pepper, surpassing the former champion, the Carolina Reaper.

Ed Currie, the brainchild behind this fiery creation and the founder of the PuckerButt Pepper company, compared his experience of eating Pepper X to enduring intense heat for over three hours. Guinness recognized this greenish-yellow pepper on October 9.

Pepper X boasts an astonishing 2,693,000 Scoville Heat Units, the standard measurement for pepper spiciness based on capsaicin concentration, the active compound responsible for the fiery sensation.

This officially grants it the title of the hottest pepper globally, outstripping the searing Carolina Reaper, also conceived by Currie, which registers at 1.64 million on the Scoville scale.

In fact, Pepper X even surpasses pepper spray in spiciness, as the latter scores 1.6 million SHU.

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