br Top 10 Hottest Peppers in the Worldbr br The past twenty years have seen an explosion of new, super-hot hybrid peppers. Turn up the heat and learn the score with our top ten hottest peppers list.br br #10: Ghost Pepper: 1,000,000 Scoville heat units (SHUs)br br #9: Barrackpore: 1,300,00 SHUsbr br #8. Naga Viper: 1,350,000 SHUsbr Photo Credit: WiKhioter Wikipediabr br #7. Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T”: 1,463,700 SHUsbr Photo Credit: Kouya Wikipediabr br #6. 7-Pot Douglah: 1,850,000 SHUsbr br #5. Pot Primo: 1,900,000 SHUsbr br #4. Brain Strain: 1,900,000 SHUsbr br #3. Trinidad Moruga Scorpion: 2,009,000 SHUsbr Photo Credit: Hankwang Wikipediabr br #2. Carolina Reaper: 2,200,000 SHUsbr Photo Credit: Dale Thurber Wikipediabr br #1. Pepper X: 3,018,000br Photo Credit: First We Feast via YouTubebr br So there you have it, fact-seekers. The ten hottest peppers known to human beings thus far. The jalapeno claim to fame just dimmed a bit, didn’t it? So much for bragging to my friends about that habanero I ate… Well, at least we still have our stomach lining. Small favors, right?br br FactRetriever is a leading producer of the most interesting facts, online video content, and a plethora of fascinating topics.