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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
RISHITIN 6 Tissue Culture *
RUBIDIUM 0 Fruit 0.4 10.0 -0.68 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
RUBIXANTHIN 1 Fruit *
RUTIN 87 Fruit 3874.0 -0.21 Varnaite, R. 1988. Rutin Content in Capsicum, Capsella, Urtica, Primula, Lepidium, Lactuca, Brassica, Anethum, Beta, Petroselinum, Allium Genera Representatives. Liet Tsr Mokslu Akad Darb Ser C, 4: 29-32.
SABINENE 5 Fruit *
SALICYLATES 7 Fruit 6.0 100.0 -0.05 *
SCOPOLETIN 44 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SELENIUM 60 Fruit 0.0 0.0 -0.39 *
SERINE 1 Fruit 340.0 4638.0 0.35 *
SILICON 4 Fruit *
SILVER 3 Fruit 0.1 0.1 -0.46 *
SKATOLE-PYRROLO-OXYGENASE 0 Leaf *
SODIUM 1 Fruit 152.0 590.0 -0.13 *
SOLANIDINE 5 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
SOLANINE 26 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
SOLANINE 26 Leaf 500.0 -1.00 *
SOLASODINE 18 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit 160.0 2180.0 -0.13 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
STIGMASTEROL 12 Fruit 10.0 180.0 1.32 *
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List of plant activities.
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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 *
Prooxidant 5 *
Propecic 6 *
Prostaglandigenic 2 *
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 *
Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor 1 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 3 *
Protisticide 2 Martindale's 29th
PTK-Inhibitor 1 *
Pulifuge 1 *
Pulmonotoxic 1 *
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 *
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 *