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
LANOSTEROL	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LATOXANTHIN	0	Fruit	1.0	25.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Fruit	0.0	2.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Fruit	440.0	6002.0	0.19	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LIGUSTRAZINE	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL	53	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Fruit	2190.0	29871.0	0.07	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LITHIUM	11	Fruit	0.3	0.4	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
LOPHENOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN	15	Fruit	0.0	50.0	3.49	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN	78	Fruit	not available	11.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-BETA-APIOGLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-BETA-D-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-BETA-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOXANTHIN-1	0	Fruit	2.0	40.0	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
Prolactinogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	5	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer	1	Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	2	Martindale's 29th
PTK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pulifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pulmonotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pyrogenic	1	Cabanac, M., Leydier, M. C., Poirier, L. J. 1976. The Effect of Capsaicin on Temperature Regulation of the Rat. Pfluegers Arch, 366: 217.
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	3	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Radioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Refrigerant	1	Martindale's 28th
Renoirritant	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Renotoxic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Repellent	1	Duke, 1992 *