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
CAPSICOSIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPSIDIOL	3	Fruit	not available	29.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPSIDIOL	3	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPSOCHROME	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPSOLUTEIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CAPSORUBIN	1	Fruit	0.0	260.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	175956.0	682000.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
CARNAUBIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CAROTENOIDS	0	Fruit	115.0	9945.0	1.91	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROPHYLL	21	Fruit	0.0	195.0	0.22	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Pericarp	not available	297.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Seed	not available	360.0	-1.24	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Fruit	not available	0.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID	18	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-13'-CAPSANTHIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-9'-CAPSANTHIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-9,10-DIHYDRO-CAPSENONE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	1.0	not available	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
Immunostimulant	10	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Immunosuppressant	1	Martindale's 29th
iNOS-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	8	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Insectifuge	22	Duke, 1992 *
Insectiphile	3	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Insulin-Sparing	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Insulinotonic	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant	20	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	3	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Keratolytic	1	Martindale's 29th
Larvicide	4	Duke, 1992 *
Larvistat	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.