How many different types of hot peppers are there?

Good news: There are approximately 4,000 varieties of chile peppers in the world, with more being cultivated all the time. To help you navigate the spicy landscape, here are 24 types of peppers to know (plus what they’re used for).

What are the top 20 hottest peppers?

Carolina Reaper Pepper (2,200,000 SHU)

  • Pepper X (3,180,000 SHU)
  • Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper (2,009,231 SHU)
  • 7 Pot Douglah Pepper (1,853,936 SHU)
  • 7 Pot Primo Pepper (1,469,000 SHU)
  • Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T” Pepper (1,463,700 SHU)
  • Naga Viper Pepper (1,349,000 SHU)
  • 7 Pot Barrackpore Pepper (1,300,000 SHU)

    • What are the names of spicy peppers?

    Capsaicin is the chemical responsible for the spicy sensation within a pepper.

    • Carolina Reaper 2,200,000 SHU.
    • Trinidad Moruga Scorpion 2,009,231 SHU.
    • 7 Pot Douglah 1,853,936 SHU.
    • 7 Pot Primo 1,469,000 SHU.
    • Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T” 1,463,700 SHU.
    • Naga Viper 1,349,000 SHU.
    • Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia) 1,041,427 SHU.

    What is the sweetest hot pepper?

    red bell peppers
    Bell peppers are the best-known sweet pepper with red bell peppers being the sweetest of all. All bell peppers are great for salads or stuffing.

    Which is hotter serrano or habanero?

    Serrano vs Habanero Peppers Habanero peppers are just as easily found at supermarkets as both serranos and jalapenos. However, habaneros and serranos are extremely different in almost every way. For one, habaneros are around 10x hotter than serranos. They also come from another pepper species (C.

    What are the top 15 hottest peppers?

    Top 15 Hottest Peppers in the World

    1. Carolina Reaper — 2,200,000 SHU.
    2. Komodo Dragon — 2,200,000 SHU.
    3. Trinidad Moruga Scorpion — 2,000,000 SHU.
    4. Chocolate Bhutlah — 2,000,000 SHU.
    5. 7 Pot Douglah — 1,853,986 SHU.
    6. Dorset Naga — 1,598,227 SHU.
    7. Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T” — 1,463,700 SHU.
    8. Naga Viper — 1,382,118 SHU.

    What is the most popular hot pepper?

    10 Most Popular Peppers in the World

    • Bell Pepper. Florina Peppers. Florina.
    • Piment d’Espelette. Espelette. France.
    • Aji Amarillo. PERU. shutterstock.
    • Poblano Pepper. Puebla. Mexico.
    • Chile de Árbol. MEXICO. Diógenes el Filósofo (CC BY-SA 3.0)
    • Ghost Pepper. North-Eastern India. India.
    • Ancho Chile Pepper. Puebla. Mexico.
    • Chipotle. MEXICO.

    What hot pepper has the best flavor?

    Best Tasting Sweet Peppers

    • Biquinho pepper (left) and lesya pepper (right).
    • Home grown shishito peppers.
    • Habanada pepper.
    • Golden marconi pepper.
    • Poblano peppers.
    • Banana peppers.
    • Sugar rush ‘stripey’ peppers.
    • Aji charapita peppers.

    What pepper is the hottest?

    the Carolina Reaper
    The World’s Hottest Pepper Is Spicy Enough to Kill You According to the Daily Post, the Dragon’s Breath chile, now the world’s spiciest pepper, clocks in at a hellish 2.48 million on the Scoville scale, dwarfing its nearest competitor, the Carolina Reaper, which comes in at 2.2 million.

    What is the hottest natural pepper?

    ‘Bhut Jolokia’—The World’s Hottest Known Chile Pepper is a Putative Naturally Occurring Interspecific Hybrid. In replicated trials at Las Cruces, N.M., the Scoville heat units (SHUs) of ‘Bhut Jolokia’, a chile pepper from Assam, India, reached one million SHUs.