Bhut Jolokia – assam’s dynamite

Try at your own risk! All you Habanero hunters.. the Bhut Jolokia, which means ghost chillies grows only in Assam and has only recently been declared the HOTTEST chilly in the world by the Guniness Book of World records. Heat from chillies is mesaured in Scoville heat units. Bhut Jolokia registers in at 1,001,304 Scoville heat units (SHU). The Red Savina chilli was considered the hottest until now, the heat of which is just half of the Bhut Jolokia at 577,000 SHU. Your average Jalapeno measures in at about 10 000 SHU. Go figure!

Even a single seed from the Bhuta Jolokia/Ghost Pepper can cause extremely intense pain in the mouth for more than thirty minutes. Very hot peppers also pose a risk to the eyes, and anyone brave enough to try a Bhuta Jolokia should use extreme caution not to get it anywhere near the eye region.

There may be some health benefits to eating peppers as hot as the Bhuta Jolokia, such as increased metabolism and lower cholesterol, and it may even be beneficial to arthritis sufferers. Before you jump to reap the benefits, though, be sure you are quite used to eating (and enjoying) very hot peppers. The Ghost Pepper may be more than you bargained for.

worlds hottest chilly

Other uses :
“Wildlife experts in Assam are experimenting with the world’s hottest pepper to prevent wild elephants from destroying homes and crops and attacking people who live close to the pachyderm’s habitat, the Associated Press reported. ”
via National Geographic