Honey Zepper, Chili with Sweet Flavor

The chili of the Habanero species known for being very spicy, but Zepper is quite different

Orange Habanero chilli pepper - Image Credit Fir0002

Red Savina Habanero has a spiciness level of about 500 thousand SHU, and people who have tried to taste will recognize the extraordinary level of spiciness. Like a review on a lifestyle site that writes about Habanero chili known as one of the world's hottest chili.

An interesting review of spicy chilies, though this year, citing the sites CNN Indonesia, August 29, indeed the world's hottest chilli position is occupied by the Carolina Reaper, but Habanero in particular Red Savina Habanero occupies the 10th position.

But now the situation makes you surprised, because the popularity of Habanero as spicy chilli now changed, it turns out habanero is now no longer spicy but it feels sweet.

Well, it all becomes clear, this Habanero variant known as ‘sweet’ habanero or later called honey zepper, a light and slightly sharp taste. There's not even a spicy flavor when you bite it.

You'd be surprised to see a different reality, as written on the sites Bon Appetit, you do not feel a stinging sting when you eat it. Decompose the sweet taste of melon fruit in the oral cavity, even as if you were eating chili flower.

Let's see how this habanero origins, Michael Mazourek in his doctoral research at Cornell University through a series of long lab tests, he managed to find a non-spicy habanero mutation in New Mexico.

As then known, this sweet habanero is the result of a hybrid or crossover of two varieties of vegetables, a spicy chilli with regular habanero.


Red Habanero - Image Credit Wortel

Research that worthy of appreciation by culinary lovers given the hard work of Mazourek, a long time to wait for several generations of plants to get a taste of sweet chili. And in 2007 he managed to get the 'offspring' habanero which is consistent with the aroma and the delicate flavor, Honey Zepper.

A founder of Ark Foods plantation company, Noah Robbins took the initiative to give a good name, Honey Zepper. A matching and worthy name for this chili variant after trying to grow the chili three years ago.

Although many people call this chili with a variety of other names, but Robbins looks confident with this sweet chili.

"We tried to accentuate its name with something that could really explain the taste."

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Source: C Andhika Setyanti - CNN Indonesia, Bon Appetit
Image: Fir0002 and Wortel via Wikipedia