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Plant Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae)

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.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Deodorant 3 Merck 11th Edition
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermal 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Diagnostic 1 Martindale's 28th
Diaphoretic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic? 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 1 Duke, 1992 *
Digestive 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Diuretic 14 Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Active 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Dye 2 Merck 11th Edition
Embryotoxic 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Emetic 4 Martindale's 29th
Emmenagogue 1 Wealth of India.
Encephalopathic 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jan-92.