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
Suppository	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sweetener	3	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Tachycardic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Taenicide	1	Martindale's 28th
Teratogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Termitifuge	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosteronigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thermogenic	1	Yoshida, T., Yoshioka, K., Wakabayashi, Y., Nishioka, H., Kondo, M. 1988. Effects of Capsaicin and Isothiocyanate on Thermogensis of Interscapular Brown Adipose Tissue in Rats. J Nutr Sci Vitaminol, 34(6): 587-594.
Thymoprotective	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
TOPO-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	2	Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Toxic	2	Martindale's 28th
Tranquilizer	3	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal	5	Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Tremorigenic	1	Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide	4	Martindale's 29th
Trichomonistat	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.