Paqui One Chip Challenge 2025 Death. 23, 2023, after eating a paqui brand chip called the “one chip challenge,” which was dusted with the extremely hot carolina reaper and naga viper peppers. The cause of his death was not immediately.

Paqui, the maker of extremely spicy tortilla chips marketed as the “one chip challenge,” is voluntarily pulling the product from shelves after a woman said her teenage son died of complications. The paqui “one chip challenge” has been criticized for making people sick in the past, but this is the first time someone has linked it to a fatality.