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

Select a Results View:

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

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
ALUMINUM	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANTHERAXANTHIN	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIIN	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Fruit	960.0	7834.0	0.94	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Fruit	350.0	23000.0	1.15	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	6000.0	65000.0	0.22	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGINE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Fruit	2860.0	23338.0	1.73	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
AUROCHROME	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BARIUM	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BEHENIC-ACID	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	1.0	38.0	-0.08	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE-EPOXIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHENETHYLACETATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Fruit	60.0	70.0	-0.70	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETAINE	14	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

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
Spasmogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Spermicide	3	Martindale's 28th
Spermigenic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Stimulant	1	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Sunscreen	4	Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Suppository	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Surfactant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sweetener	2	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Tachycardic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Teratogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Teratologic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Termitifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Testosteronigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thermogenic	1	Yoshida, T., Yoshioka, K., Wakabayashi, Y., Nishioka, H., Kondo, M. 1988. Effects of Capsaicin and Isothiocyanate on Thermogensis of Interscapular Brown Adipose Tissue in Rats. J Nutr Sci Vitaminol, 34(6): 587-594.
Thymoprotective	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	2	Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	3	Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.