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
LUTEOXANTHIN-2	0	Fruit	7.0	110.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Fruit	380.0	5183.0	0.28	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MAGNESIUM	65	Fruit	604.0	2340.0	0.10	Duke, 1992 *
MALONIC-ACID	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
MALONIC-ACID	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
MALTOL	11	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Fruit	0.4	1.4	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
MARGARIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
MERCURY	1	Fruit	0.0	0.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE	15	Fruit	100.0	1364.0	0.50	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MOLYBDENUM	2	Fruit	0.0	15.0	2.52	Duke, 1992 *
MUTATOXANTHIN-1	0	Fruit	0.0	40.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUTATOXANTHIN-2	0	Fruit	0.5	295.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN	34	Fruit	not available	1.0	-0.69	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Fruit	10.0	136.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
N-(13-METHYLTETRADECYL)ACETAMIDE	0	Fruit	300.0	400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-CIS-FERULOYL-TYRAMINE	0	Root	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEXANAL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYL-ANILINE	0	Fruit	not available	13.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypercholesterolemic	2	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hypnotic	2	Martindale's 29th
Hypoammonemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic	22	Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic	12	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	16	Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
IKK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	11	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.