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
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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Anticephalagic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiCFS	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticholinergic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticholinesterase	4	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antichorea	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antichoreic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticirrhotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticirrhotic?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticlastogen	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlaudificant?	1	Martindale's 29th
Anticlimacteric	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticoagulant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Anticoeliac	1	Martindale's 28th
Anticold	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolonospasmic	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.