Plant Capsicum frutescens (Solanaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cayenne; Chili; Tabasco; Hot Pepper; Spur Pepper; Red Chili

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
METHYL-NONANOATE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-OCTADECANOATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-OCTANOATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-PENTANOATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-PHENYLACETATE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-TETRADECANOATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEVALONIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	0.5	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Fruit	10.0	82.0	-0.27	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-(13-METHYLTETRADECYL)ACETAMIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEXANAL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-BETA-CAROTENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOXANTHIN	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
NIACIN	39	Fruit	9.0	158.0	1.30	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Fruit	1.0	1.5	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
NIGROXANTHIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONADECANE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONANOIC-ACID	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONANOIC-ACID-VANILLYLAMIDE	0	Fruit	2.0	45.0	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
Antileukoplakic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene-D4	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotrienogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antilupus	2	Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphocytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic	5	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antimalarial	2	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimanic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimastalgic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimastitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiMD	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimeasles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic	5	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMeniere's	1	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.