7 Pot Brain Strain Pepper Powder

On the Scoville Heat Scale, Brain Strain peppers have a Scoville Heat Unit (SHU) range of 1,000,000 - 1,350,000 SHU.

To give you an idea of how hot the brain strain pepper is compared to other common peppers. A bell pepper has a SHU of 0 as it has no heat. A common jalapeño has a SHU of around 2,500 - 6,000 SHU. Whereas habanero peppers range anywhere from 100,000 to 350,000 SHU. 

These peppers are part of the 7 Pot pepper family. As such, it has a sweet, fruity, and smoky flavor. The volcanic heat hits the back of your throat instantly and lasts about 10 minutes. We can not stress enough how fruity this pepper is, it tastes wonderful.

What do 7 Pot Brain Strain Peppers look like?
7 Pot Brain Strain Peppers are large-sized peppers with a bright red appearance. They commonly feature evil-looking bumps on the outside. The placenta which surrounds the seeds is very fleshy and encompasses a large portion of the inside of the pepper.

Growing Season:
Late February - Early November. 

Nutritional Value:
Chile peppers contain a high amount of vitamin C. Almost twice the number of citrus fruits.

• Insanity Wings
• Mexican Dishes
• Chili 
• In restaurants that want the hottest heat levels, this would be 5 on and 1 - 5 scale. 
• Add heat to any meal.
• Super spicy dips

 

• Dissolves easily making for a more constant heat level throughout the dish.
• The powder is the combination of thousands of Brain Strain peppers. The heat level will be the average heat level of those peppers. This allows us to provide you with a more consistent product for use in recipes. While the heat level will vary from crop to crop the variation will be less noticeable compared to purchasing the whole peppers where heat differences between every single pepper will be much greater.
• Cheaper to ship compared to whole peppers. The volume of pepper powder is much less than the volume of whole peppers and flakes. 

• Premium quality non-smoked Brain Strain Pepper Powder, you will taste the difference.
• Lightning-fast shipping time, we will ship your order in under 2 business days. Most orders ship the same day or the very next business day.
• Pure, no additives.
• Ships in a high-quality spice jar with a sealed sifter flip top.
  
  

Looking for a larger amount?
We offer wholesale discounts on purchases over $500. You can learn about wholesale on our Wholesale Page.

Frequently Asked Questions about 7 Pot Brain Strain Peppers

How hot are 7-Pot Brain Strain Peppers?

This pepper is probably a close relative to the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. It measures around the 1,000,000 mark on the Scoville Scale. David Capiello brought the seeds of one of these peppers from Trinidad to the United States for the first time in 2010. Unlike other peppers on the list, the 7-Pot Brain Strain is not a hybrid. It is the product of selective breeding where the original breeders collected chili pods that had the characteristics they wanted for this special pepper.

What do 7-Pot Brain Strain peppers looks like?

The 7-Pot Brain Strain is rounder and squattier than many of the other peppers on the list. In fact, it looks a little bit like a brain. Like most of the other hot peppers, it is most commonly bright red, but you can also find yellow 7-Pot Brain Strains.