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Plant 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.
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
PHENOL 26 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Fruit 260.0 3546.0 0.08 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHATIDYL-GLYCEROL 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-GLYCEROL 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHODIESTERASE 0 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 784.0 3040.0 -0.05 Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Fruit 0.0 0.1 -0.22 Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOENE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOFLUENE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Fruit 90.0 1750.0 1.04 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
PIPERIDINE 10 Fruit not available 5.2 -1.41 Duke, 1992 *
PORPHOBILINOGEN-OXYGENASE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 3483.0 13500.0 -0.39 Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE 0 Fruit 370.0 5047.0 0.29 Duke, 1992 *
PROPIONIC-ACID 6 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 35862.0 139000.0 0.40 Duke, 1992 *
PULEGONE 28 Fruit not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
PYRIDINE 3 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PYRROLIDINE 1 Fruit not available 1.4 not available Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 0.0 19.0 3.00 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Trypsin-Enhancer 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumor-Promoter 2 Duke, 1992 *
Tumorigenic 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 3 HerbalGram No. 20, page 9.
Urate-Solvent 1 Duke, 1992 *
Uricosuric 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant 1 Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier 1 Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative 2 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Varroacide 2 Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator 17 Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor 2 Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Vermifuge 2 Duke, 1992 *
Verrucolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *