“Paqui One Chip Challenge”, that’s the name of the challenge —challenge in English— that this American company promotes, urging its buyers to be able to beat this particular challenge in which they must eat one of its very spicy chips, taking as long as possible to drink water or milk after taking it.
The chips —made with corn tortillas— are seasoned with two of the hottest chili peppers known, the Carolina Reaper and the Naga Viper Peppers, informing on their website that they do not have an official Scoville rank —as the community is known. scale that measures the hotness of peppers—to adhere to.
What is certain is that the Carolina Reaper (literally, the Carolina Reaper, due to its connotations with death) has a Scoville score of 1.7 million, while Naga Viper chili peppers are usually around 1. 4 million points. To give us an idea, a pepper or jalapeño pepper has, at most, about 8,000 points on this scale.
The problem, as explained by various American media such as Food & Wine either The New York Timesis that the Paqui One Chip Challenge seems taking the life of an American teenager.
The Paqui One Chip Challenge behind the death of a teenager
According to these sources, Harris Wolobaha young man from the town of Worcester, in the state of Massachusetts —in the northeast of the country— consumed one of these chips last Friday, September 1, the day he He died after completing the aforementioned Paqui One Chip Challenge.
After fainting in class shortly after finishing the challenge, the institute nurse called the teen’s mother, who took her son home. However, within a few hours, an ambulance came to the Wolobah home where the boy lay unconscious.
He was automatically transferred to the nearest hospital, where he would die hours later. After performing the autopsy —even without revealing it—, the young man’s parents believe that the aforementioned Paqui One Chip Challenge would be behind the death of his son
Withdrawn from its sale as the situation became known, the Paqui company issued a statement through its social networks where it recalled that the Paqui One Chip Challenge —a small coffin box and featuring a skull design—is intended for an adult audience only.
In addition, they indicate that there are several notices on the box that they advise against the consumption of this chip to minors, pregnant, allergic, people sensitive to spicy and, in general, people suffering from other medical conditions.
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However, Wolobah’s parents strongly believe that he challenge contributed to the death of his son, demanding that “the product has to be completely out of the market”, as stated The New York Times.
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