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World’s hottest chilli grown in Grantham, Lincs
A chilli grown in the historic market town of Grantham, Lincs has been named as the hottest in the world.
The Infinity chilli is hotter than the Bhut Jolokia chilli, the former record holder, which is used by the Indian military to make hand grenades to immobilise terrorist suspects.
Tests by Warwick University rate the Infinity chilli at 1,067,286 on the Scoville Scale which is used to measure the heat of peppers.
The Bhut Jolokia chilli is measured at 1,041,427. A jalapeño measures just 2,500 to 5,000. Weapons-grade pepper spray is 2,000,000.
The Lincs variety is named Infinity for its "never-ending" burn, which cannot be quelled by even the best antidote, milk, according to The Sun.
Woody Woods, 37, of Fire Foods in Grantham, which grows the chilli, said: "It is like eating red-hot coal.
"To grow such a burning hot chilli in our climate is unbelievable."
He and his friend Matt Simpson, 38, bred the Infinity in a greenhouse by crossing existing varieties and hope to market the seeds later this year.
In 2006 the Dorset Naga, a chilli grown in Dorset, claimed to be the hottest in the world, measuring a Scoville heat unit of 876,000.