Ranked as the Guinness World Record’s hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper peaked at about 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units, the scale used to rank how spicy peppers are.

World champion Mike Jack from Stellarton, N.S., has 18 Guinness World Records for eating spicy foods and one he shares with his partner Jamie.

The spiciest food on the planet is the Trinidad Scorpion, a golf-ball-sized pepper cultivatable in most parts of the world "You take ... The capsaicin oil (the spicy part) of a pepper is extracted ...