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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Erum Salam

Hot stuff: Pepper X is named world’s spiciest by Guinness World Records

Ed Currie holds up one of his Pepper X peppers in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Ed Currie holds up one of his Pepper X peppers in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Photograph: Jeffrey Collins/AP

A new pepper is coming in hot as the spiciest in the world, Guinness World Records has announced.

For a decade, the Carolina Reaper chilli pepper was ruled to be the hottest chilli pepper in the world. But now “Pepper X” has taken its crown.

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