Ranked as the Guinness World Record’s hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper peaked at about 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units, the scale used to rank how spicy peppers are.

These pricey peppers can cost anywhere from $60 to $300 per pound, and are about as spicy as cayenne pepper and much spicier ...

Believe it or not, it’s not the seeds. Whether you are whipping up a batch of hot pepper vinegar or a tray of Afterburners, ...

A man who took part in a chilli pepper eating contest ended up with more than he bargained for when he took on the hottest pepper in the world. After eating a Carolina Reaper pepper, the 34-year ...

Did a Mississippi man grow the world's tallest pepper plant? Henry Pope, the lead grower and plant geneticist for Mississippi Foundation for Renewable Energy, worked to cross-pollinate specific ...

The spiciest food on the planet is the Trinidad Scorpion, a golf-ball-sized pepper cultivatable in most parts of the world "You take a bite. It doesn't seem so bad, and then it builds and it ...

There's more. This is Moe's Southwest Grill's spiciest salsa. It's made with GHOST PEPPERS! Ghost peppers are one of the world's hottest peppers. They measure more than 1 MILLION units on the ...