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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BORON | 4 | Fruit | 4.0 | 17.0 | -0.46 | Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron). |
| BUTYRIC-ACID | 6 | Resin, Exudate, Sap | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAFFEIC-ACID | 102 | Fruit | not available | 32.0 | -0.33 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Fruit | 175.0 | 1560.0 | -0.53 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPESTEROL | 2 | Fruit | 20.0 | 30.0 | -0.40 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| CAMPHOR | 41 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPROIC-ACID | 1 | Resin, Exudate, Sap | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPSAICIN | 44 | Fruit | 100.0 | 17900.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPSAICIN | 44 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPSAICIN | 44 | Seed | not available | 5.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPSAICIN | 44 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPSANTHIN | 2 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| CAPSANTHIN-3,6-EPOXIDE | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPSANTHIN-5,6-EPOXIDE | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPSANTHONE | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPSIAMIDE | 0 | Fruit | 20.0 | 200.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPSIDIOL | 3 | Plant | 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. |
| CAPSIDOL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
| CAPSOLUTEIN | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPSORUBIN | 1 | 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 |