World's Hottest Pepper - Dragon's Breath is Off the Charts Hot!

If you're a fan of spicy and hot, then you're probably questioning just how hot this pepper can really be. It is said to be the first pepper that is hotter than pepper spray - However, I've never tried pepper spray🤣

According to Mike Smith, the man who runs Tom Smith Plants in St Asaph, Wales, he has bred a new pepper that is so spicy and with heat so strong that it could potentially kill you!

The Dragon's Breath pepper reportedly measures 2.48 million on the Scoville heat units scale! If you're not much of a spicy food fanatic, the Scoville scale helps put a rating to how hot peppers are on a numerical heat rating index. If this number holds, the new Welsh pepper would easily beat out the current record holder, the Carolina Reaper, which has set a Guinness World Record for hottest chili back in 2013 (1,569,300 Scoville Heat Units).

The North Wales Daily Post went as far as calling the pepper "weapons-grade," pointing out how the U.S Military uses pepper spray that registers around 2 million on the Scoville scale! The paper also mentions that "it could potentially cause a type of anaphylactic shock for someone who eats it, burning the airways and closing them up."

Unsurprisingly, for these reasons, no one has actually eaten the Dragon's Breath pepper.