While you might want spice up your food with chilies, this is one even you had best avoid . Its guaranteed to make you weep and cry cos it’s the world’s hottest chili pepper. Bosland, a regents professor at New Mexico State University, had discovered the world’s hottest chili pepper, Bhut Jolokia, a naturally occurring hybrid native to the Assam region of northeastern India.
Bhut Jolokia comes in at 1,001,304 Scoville heat units, a measure of hotness for a chili. It is nearly twice as hot as Red Savina, the variety it replaces as the hottest. In February 2007, Guinness World Records certified the bhut jolokia (Prof. Bosland’s preferred name for the pepper) as the world’s hottest chili pepper.
Whats in the name?
It is also called Bih Jolokia in some places of Assam, Bih = Poison, Jolokia = chili pepper; in Assamese. Other names are Bhut jolokia (probably due to its ghostly bite or introduction by the Bhutias from Bhutan poison chili), Borbih jolokia, Nagahari, Nagajolokia, Naga Morich, Naga Moresh and Raja mirchi (the king of chilis). These are all the same chili but named differently at different places.
Well if you love hot food, you can add this to your cuisine and get a taste of fire.
Source: CNN
