The man eats 50 peppers in 68 seconds as part of the competition in China

An annual chili festival began Monday in Hunan Province. in which the winner put a frantic pace by slaughtering a pepper of about fifty peppers in a little more than a minute.

Local boy Tang Shuaihui won a 3 gram gold 24 carat coin to win the competition. a local theme park in Ningxiang County and now in its second year.

With doctors on hand in case, ten participants each had plates of 50 Tabasco peppers, who ran to be the first to finish red.

Tang laundered his plate in just 68 seconds during a contest held under almost stifling temperature conditions, while competitors were sitting in a shallow pool filled with water and three tons of floating peppers

. Amazing speed, just after the emce We had finished talking, "said Sun Minying, a theme park employee, called Tanhe Ancient City.

The Tabasco chili pepper has a rank of 30,000 to 50,000 on the Scoville Heat Scale that measures hot peppers. somewhere between a jalapeno and a habanero.

The peppers that swayed in the pool were however of a much lower variety, partly to avoid irritating the skin of competitors.

Hunan cuisine is marked by its inflamed peppers. It is considered one of the eight great culinary traditions of China, with Sichuan, Cantonese and other cuisines.

The festival lasts until the end of August, with a contest of fresh chillies every day