Mary Roach travelled to the state of Nagaland to get a taste of one of the hottest peppers on the planet. It's called the Naga king chili. She writes about the trip in an article in Smithsonian ...

Peppers must be chewed at least three times ... “Very no.” Catherine Burns ate five Naga King Chilies, like Pu Zozam. Yet Zozam was taken away in an ambulance. I ran into Burns shopping ...

They started with a Bangladeshi pepper, the Naga morich, and refined it until they got the Dorset naga, the hottest pepper in the world. Or close to it. Guinness World Records listed the bhut jolo ...

Call it Bhut Jolokia, Naga Mircha or U-morok, the indigenous King Chilli also proves that chilli pepper long-existed in India and wasn't introduced by the Portuguese as is popularly believed.

That’s one spicy, paint-peeling pepper. The Naga Viper, a cross between three of the hottest exiting varieties, is set to become the hottest chili in the world. It’s so hot that it can strip ...

A few years back the Naga jolokia, which is nicknamed the Ghost Chili, was deemed the spiciest in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records. How spicy is the Ghost? "You can hallucinate from ...

Bred by American grower Ed Currie in South Carolina, the Carolina Reaper is a hybrid of a Pakistani Naga pepper and a Red Habanero. It consistently measures around 1.64 million SHU, with peaks ...