Chocolate Congo

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Chocolate Congo

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Chocolate Congo
Chocolate Congo Habanero; Hab Chocolate Congo; Habanero Brown Congo; Habañero Chocolate Congo; Habanero Chocolate Congo; Chocolate Congo Habanaro; Congo Chocolate; Congo Brown; Trinidad Congo Brown; Trinidad Congo ChocolateEdit
C-B-SM-H-7-005RegisteredHow UPN works
100,000 - 350,000
Brown/ChocolateEdit
Habanero-typeEdit
Not setEdit
Green/MustardEdit

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Classified as C. chinense. Ripens to brown/chocolate, habanero-type pods. Clocks in at 100,000–350,000 SHU — very hot, not for the faint of heart. A member of the broad habanero family, domesticated thousands of years ago on the Yucatán Peninsula.

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Last updated Oct 7, 2026

How hot is the Chocolate Congo?

The Chocolate Congo measures 100,000–350,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), making it a very hot pepper — roughly 45 times hotter than a jalapeño (which tops out around 8,000 SHU).

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