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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DECANOIC-ACID-VANILLYLAMIDE | 0 | Fruit | 1.0 | 68.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DELTA-3-CARENE | 8 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DIHYDROCAPSAICIN | 1 | Fruit | 75.0 | 1628.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DIHYDROCAPSAICIN | 1 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EO | 0 | Fruit | not available | 16000.0 | -0.51 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ERIODICTIN | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ETHYL-DODECANOATE | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ETHYL-OCTANOATE | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ETHYL-TETRADECANOATE | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FAT | 0 | Fruit | 1000.0 | 16320.0 | -0.52 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FAT | 0 | Seed | 100000.0 | 150000.0 | -0.61 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FERULIC-ACID | 61 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FIBER | 15 | Fruit | 18000.0 | 146880.0 | 0.05 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FOLACIN | 15 | Fruit | 0.0 | 2.0 | -0.02 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| FOLIAXANTHIN | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GALACTOSE | 1 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GERANYL-ACETONE | 2 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GLUCOSE | 7 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GLUTAMIC-ACID | 8 | Fruit | 2640.0 | 21542.0 | 0.65 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| GLYCINE | 12 | Fruit | 740.0 | 6038.0 | 0.94 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Toxic | 3 | Martindale's 28th |
| Tranquilizer | 4 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Transdermal | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tremorigenic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Trichomonicide | 4 | Martindale's 29th |
| Tumor-Promoter | 1 | J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079. |
| Tumorigenic | 2 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Tyrosinase-Inhibitor | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170. |
| Ubiquiot | 5 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Ulcerogenic | 2 | HerbalGram No. 20, page 9. |
| Uricosuric | 4 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Urinary-Acidulant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Urine-Acidifier | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Urine-Deodorant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Uterorelaxant | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Uterosedative | 2 | Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990. |
| Uterotrophic | 1 | Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999. |
| Varroacide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Vasodilator | 13 | Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp. |