The Apollo pepper's heat has been reported to measure up to 3.18 million Scoville heat units (SHU), the same as one of its parent plants: Pepper X. The other parent plant is the Carolina Reaper. The Carolina Reaper is, in comparison, a relatively sedate 1.8 million SHU. But that's, of course, still incredibly spicy.
It has no known SHU value but, on a scale of naught to the hottest Reaper sauce that I've had, I'd say it's a 4.5/10. Hotter than most supermarket sauces but not on par with even, say, the best of Ghost stuff. If I had to estimate an SHU, I'd say about 75K but that's just a rough estimate.
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The Scoville Heat Ranking of 20 Different Types of Common Peppers. Pepper X: Scoville rating of 3,180,000; Carolina Reaper: Scoville rating of 1,400,000-2,200,000; Ghost Pepper: Scoville rating of 800,000-1,041,427; Habanero: Scoville rating of 100,000-350,000; Scotch Bonnet: Scoville rating of 100,000-350,000
Learn more about the Scoville scale and Scoville unit, and where the chili peppers fall within the chili pepper heat scale universe. Learn what is the Scoville Scale, a list of chili peppers and their Scoville Heat Units (SHUs) from hottest to mildest and more.
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