The Moruga Scorpion is one of the world’s most extreme superhot peppers, once holding records as the hottest chili on Earth. It delivers ferocious heat with a surprisingly sweet, fruity, and floral complexity.
Moruga Scorpion peppers are 2–3 inches long, heavily wrinkled, pod-shaped with a pronounced scorpion-tail tip. They ripen from green to a vibrant bright red. The skin is thin and bumpy; the walls are juicy. Heat is extreme (1,200,000–2,009,231 SHU).
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Discovered in the Moruga region of Trinidad and Tobago, this pepper stunned the world in the early 2010s when it was tested at over 2 million Scoville units, briefly holding the Guinness World Record for hottest pepper. It is a variant of the Trinidad Scorpion family and remains a benchmark for extreme heat with real flavor.
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Reach out →Sweet and intensely fruity with bright citrus, floral, and tropical notes. The heat is ferocious and long-lasting, yet the complex sweetness remains noticeable even under the extreme burn.
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