Some pepper are thoroughgoing for adding a elusive , spicy kicking to your favorite dish . Others are so hot they ’re consume as a test of strength . Then there are hot pepper that salute a wellness chance to anyone who assay to devour one . The Dragon ’s Breath chilli belongs in latter chemical group . AsThe Telegraphreports , the puny fruit packs a heart - pounding 2.48 million Scoville heat units — that ’s 1.5 times hotter than the current hottest pepper phonograph recording - holder , the Carolina Reaper .
Competitive gardener Mike Smith did n’t intend to acquire a common pepper with taste bud - incinerating spicery levels . His finish was to cultivate a chili plant on his Welsh farm that was well - looking enough to win Plant of the Year at the Chelsea Flower Show . With help from Nottingham Trent University scientist , who were interested in the chili con carne ’s medicative potential drop as an anaesthetic agent , he produce a pepper that ’s attracting attention for reasons other than its sweetheart .
The chile ’s heat depicted object is so mellow that scientists discourage that any daredevil who eat one might go into anaphylactic shock and die from asphyxiation . This led many outlets to describe the Dragon ’s Breath chilly as a pepperso hot it can drink down you , butGizmodoexplains that eat on a deadly VD of the stuff would be harder than headlines make it out to be . concord to the article , you ’d need to corrode over half a pound , or 25 to 30 Dragon ’s Breath chilly , to die from capsaicin poisoning . Based on Smith ’s description of the taste , just get past the first pepper sounds like a challenge .
“ I ’ve tried it on the tip of my tongue and it just burned and burned , " he toldThe Telegraph . " I spat it out in about 10 second . ”
Smith ’s world failed to win Plant of the Year at theChelsea Flower Show , but if the scientist ’ Scoville Heat Unit calculation are correct , the Dragon ’s Breath chili con carne will be crowned the world ’s hottest capsicum pepper plant when it ’s value by Guinness World Records .
[ h / tThe Telegraph ]
