April 10 2009 19:35 PST
By: Mufsin Mahbub
26-year-old Anandita Dutta Tamuly broke the world record of gobbling down 51 chili peppers in under 2 minutes without battling an eyelid or shedding a tear. She gobbled up the "ghost chillies" in front of British chef Gordon Ramsay in the north-eastern state of Assam.
Ms Tamuly told Associated Press she "felt terrible" - because she had managed 60 in an earlier local event. Mr. Ramsay tried a chili but said "it's too much" and pleaded for water. He is in Assam for a television shoot of a global food series.
Guinness World Records accepted in 2007 that the ghost chili was the world's spiciest at more than one million Scoville units, the measure of spiciness. A standard green chili has about 1,500 units.
The chili record took place on Thursday in Jorhat, 200 miles north-east of state capital, Guwahati.
Ms Tamuly told the Associated Press that she used to eat the chili as a child "while children of my age roamed the village to look for berries".
She became addicted to chillies when she was only five years old. "I had a sore tongue and my mother applied chili paste to cure the infection when I was five years old. Since then I developed a penchant for chillies," Tamuly said.
"I don't feel any difference. I don't know why," she said.
Tamuly claims her chili eating habit has had no affect on her health.
Atul Lahkar, a local chef, told the Times of India that Ms Tamuly also "smeared seeds of 24 chillies in her eyes in one minute with the crowd simply awestruck".
Her achievement will be published into this year's Guinness of World Records for this unusual record.
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