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Common Names
Cayenne; Chili; Tabasco; Hot Pepper; Spur Pepper; Red Chili
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STIGMASTEROL | 12 | Fruit | 10.0 | 20.0 | -0.90 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| TERPINEN-4-OL | 23 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TETRADECANE | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| THIAMIN | 31 | Fruit | 0.0 | 8.0 | 0.34 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| THREONINE | 4 | Fruit | 740.0 | 6038.0 | 1.26 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| THUJONE | 17 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TITANIUM | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TOCOPHEROL | 93 | Fruit | not available | 24.0 | -0.49 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TOLUENE | 1 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRANS-2-HEXEN-1-OL | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRYPTOPHAN | 29 | Fruit | 260.0 | 2122.0 | 1.78 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| TYROSINE | 8 | Fruit | 420.0 | 3427.0 | 0.42 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| VALERIC-ACID | 9 | Resin, Exudate, Sap | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| VALINE | 3 | Fruit | 840.0 | 6854.0 | 0.50 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| VANILLYL-AMIDE | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| VANILLYL-AMINE | 1 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| VIOLAXANTHIN | 2 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| VIT-B-6 | 0 | Fruit | 3.0 | 23.0 | 2.49 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| WATER | 0 | Fruit | 70000.0 | 889550.0 | 0.52 | Duke, 1992 * |
| XANTHOPHYLL-EPOXIDE | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Embryotoxic | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Emetic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Emmenagogue | 2 | Wealth of India. |
| Encephalopathic | 3 | Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jan-92. |
| Endocrinactive | 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. |
| Energizer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Enterocontractant | 1 | J. Aromatherapy 4: 22. |
| Epileptigenic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Ergogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Erythrocytogenic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Essential | 8 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Estrogenic | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Estrogenic? | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Ethanolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Expectorant | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fatal | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Fibrinolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fistula-Preventive | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| FLavor | 27 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |