Plant Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Bell Pepper; Green Pepper; Cherry Pepper; Sweet Pepper; Cone Pepper; Paprika

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
PHENOL	26	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Fruit	260.0	3546.0	0.08	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHATIDYL-GLYCEROL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-GLYCEROL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHODIESTERASE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	784.0	3040.0	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Fruit	0.0	0.1	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOFLUENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Fruit	90.0	1750.0	1.04	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
PIPERIDINE	10	Fruit	not available	5.2	-1.41	Duke, 1992 *
PORPHOBILINOGEN-OXYGENASE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	3483.0	13500.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Fruit	370.0	5047.0	0.29	Duke, 1992 *
PROPIONIC-ACID	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Fruit	35862.0	139000.0	0.40	Duke, 1992 *
PULEGONE	28	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
PYRIDINE	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PYRROLIDINE	1	Fruit	not available	1.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Fruit	0.0	19.0	3.00	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antisalmonella	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antischizophrenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiscoliotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiscorbutic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseborrheic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antisenility	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	26	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antishingles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antishock	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antisickling	4	Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antisilicotic	1	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antisinusitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antispare-Tire	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antispasmodic	24	Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Antispasmophilic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antispastic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antispermatogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiSpina-Bifida	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistaphylococcic	7	Duke, 1992 *