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22 peppers — fruity
Clear filtersJalapeño
Grassy, bright, and mildly vegetal with a clean, manageable heat.
Serrano
Bright, crisp, and grassy with a sharper heat than jalapeño.
Habanero
Intensely fruity and floral with a fast, aggressive heat that builds quickly.
Scotch Bonnet
Sweet, fruity, and floral with a deep Caribbean heat that's rounder than habanero.
Ghost Pepper
Smoky, earthy fruit with a building heat that escalates for several minutes.
Carolina Reaper
Fruity, sweet entry followed by the most intense sustained heat of any widely available pepper.
Piri Piri
Citrusy, bright heat with a slight sweetness and a lingering warm finish.
Calabrian Chili
Rich, oily, slightly smoky heat with a fruity depth that's unique among European peppers.
Chipotle
Deep, woody smoke with a moderate heat and a dried fruit complexity.
Trinidad Moruga Scorpion
Fruity sweetness that vanishes instantly as one of the most sustained, intense heats in existence takes over.
Ají Amarillo
Uniquely tropical and fruity — passion fruit and mango notes — with a clean, vibrant heat.
Gochugaru
Smoky, sweet, and mildly fruity with a gentle warmth — the defining flavor of Korean cuisine.
7 Pot Primo
Sweet, slightly fruity entry that gives way to extreme sustained heat with a distinctive smoky finish.
Naga Viper
Fruity, slightly sweet entry that yields rapidly to intense, near-immediate heat with little build-up.
Komodo Dragon
Mild, almost sweet first impression that escalates into one of the most delayed and sustained heat profiles in the pepper world.
Fatalii
Intensely fruity — citrus, apricot, mango, and tropical floral notes — with a clean, sharp heat.
Poblano
Rich, earthy, slightly fruity heat — closer to a vegetable than a chile when fresh.
Ancho
Dried fruit and chocolate — raisin, prune, slight smoke, with a gentle warmth.
Guajillo
Berry-like, tangy, slightly fruity heat with a hint of green tea and pine.
Fresno
Bright, slightly fruity, with a clean medium heat — like a red jalapeño with more fruit and less vegetal character.
Aleppo Pepper
Sun-dried tomato, raisin, dried-fruit smoke, and a slow-building moderate heat.
Padrón
Vegetal and slightly fruity, with a mild grass-and-green-pepper character — and the well-known one-in-ten chance of meaningful heat.