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Spiciest pepper in the world developed by Romanian scientists waiting for approval to beat Carolina Reaper

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If you knew that the world's most terrible chilli peppers belonged to Americans or Mexicans, things might be different. And that's because the hottest pepper in the world is now a Romanian one.

It was created in Buzău by researchers and is in the approval process. It has already caused a sensation at the world congress in Paris. According to specialists, the Buzau chilli pepper is at least two thousand times hotter than a normal chilli pepper.

Romanian plant genetics specialists have crossed a local variety of chilli pepper with several international varieties. The research started when a local sausage and babic producer in Buzău asked agronomists to produce a slightly spicier variety of pepper to help in the manufacturing process. That's how they ended up with the pairing from which, say the Romanians, the world's hottest pepper was obtained.

Costel Vinatoru, director of the Buzău Plant Genetic Resources Bank: "The oldest Romanian variety of chilli pepper, popularly known as goat's horn chilli, was involved in the crossbreeding, and it helped us to obtain the hottest pepper, considered the hottest pepper in the world."

The "hotness level" is determined internationally according to the Scoville unit which measures the level of capsaicin in peppers, an organic substance present in different species of hot peppers.

According to the Guinness Book, the world record for the hottest pepper is held by Carolina Reaper, which originated in the United States.

However, according to the researchers in Buzău, their pepper, which does not yet have a name, has a constant 2.4 million Scoville units, beating the world leader in terms of hotness. The Romanian invention is in the approval process.

Costel Vinatoru, director of the Buzau Plant Genetic Resources Bank: "We have achieved this first, this hitherto unheard of record. What we presented there, a chilli pepper that exceeds 2 400 000 units."

An American grows the world's most expensive hot pepper in Romania
And the hot pepper industry is booming. But after marrying a Romanian woman, an American has moved to Galați, where he owns several restaurants and grows various types of chillies for sophisticated menus. Freddy's garden also grows the world's most expensive chilli pepper, Aji Charapita.

"This one from Peru, the most expensive. It can cost about a thousand dollars. That's Yellow Scorpion and Carolina Viper - one of the hottest peppers in the world/You can't eat it raw. We process it - put on gloves and mask. On the hands, on the eyes, it's harmful. But... superb!" he said.

The world's hottest peppers in Alba
In Ciugud, in Alba, a young man with a passion for exotic crops bought seeds from England two years ago to grow the world's hottest peppers. He now has three of these extremely hot varieties in his plot. The peppers of these varieties need high temperatures and about five months before they can be harvested.

Florian Hada, hot pepper grower: "They can be dried, eaten fresh and the strong ones at the moment are Carolina Reaper which are between 1.4 million and 2 million on the Scoville scale. They are extremely, extremely hot not everyone can eat them."

And some of the crop even ends up being used in desserts. For example, some confectioners use chilli peppers to get a very special flavour for a vanilla caramel custard.

Cosmin Toma, chef: "I made a caramel cream that is very smooth, a little sweet, bitter, and I added the chilli pepper that gives it a special flavour/but the star is the chilli pepper."

As the areas under chilli pepper cultivation in Romania are too small, not even the Ministry of Agriculture knows the total amount harvested.

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