The world of chillies is diverse and fascinating, with varieties that push the limits of what we perceive as "spicy." These ...

From social media crazes like the one chip challenge – where people were dared to eat a single tortilla chip infused with the world’s hottest chilli, the Carolina reaper – to super-charged sauces, it ...

A man who ate the world's hottest chilli pepper in a chilli-eating contest ended up in hospital after experiencing "thunderclap" headaches. The 34-year-old man had eaten one Carolina Reaper chilli ...

However, when I heard about Iceland's ready meals promising extreme heat, featuring the world's spiciest chilli, Pepper X, I was intrigued. They claim that Pepper X tops 2.69 million Scoville heat ...

We are the only two mammals known to tolerate the burn of capsaicin – the active chemical compound responsible for making chilli peppers spicy hot ... spice crops in the world.

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.

“We kind of took off with the ghost pepper and the Trinidad Scorpion pepper as being two of the hottest peppers in the world that we really focused on.” For large-scale production, Smoking J ...

In Faisal Al Mutairi's garage in his Dubai villa, shelves are lined with vibrant bottles in every shade of red, orange and ...