LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico State University is going into the fiery foods business, and sales are heating up at regional airports.
The university's hot sauce and salsa - made from the hottest chile peppers on the planet - are now being sold in airports across the Southwest.
The product is called Holy Jolokia.
A fiery foods company partnered with NMSU last year to produce the hot sauce and a salsa, made from Jolokia peppers. Those peppers are certified by NMSU's Chile Pepper Institute as the hottest on Earth - with a rating of 100 times hotter than the average jalapeno.
University officials say the hot sauce and salsa are extremely hot but delicious.
A portion of the sales will go back to the Chile Pepper Institute.
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