When your talking about the world’s hottest peppers, it’s all about the Carolina Reaper…then everything else. Red and knobbly with a small pointed tail, the pepper has held the Guinness World Record as the hottest chili on earth since 2013. Naturally, as a self-touting “chili lover”, I made the monumental mistake of eating a my first fresh grown Reaper pepper whole last year. Suffice it to say, I will not be doing that again lol. There honestly is no way I could possibly describe the cataclysmic event my body endured for many…
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Hot peppers taste hot due to the capsaicin they contain. Hot peppers may help lower blood pressure and high cholesterol, and that’s good news for your heart. … The health benefit comes from capsaicin (pronounced kap-SAY-sin), the same compound that makes hot peppers like cayennes, jalapeños, and habaneros so hot.