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
Fungistat	2	Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionalytic	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jan-92.
Glutathionigenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hallucinogenic	1	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Hematopoietic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic	3	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemorrhagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostatic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatomegalic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	16	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	2	Lewis, E.J. and Friedrich, E.C. 1989. The Essential Oil of Poliomintha incana. Planta Medica 56(2): 224-226, 1990.
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	10	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.