Chilli / Cayenne pepper

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Cayenne pepper (Capsicum frutescens L) or cayenne pepper, fruit and plants are members of the genus Capsicum. Besides Indonesia, he also grew popular as a spice in cooking and in the countries of Southeast Asia. In Malaysia and Singapore it is called chilli rice, labuyo ceilings in the Philippines, and in Thailand phrik khi nu. In Kerala, India, there are traditional dishes that use cayenne pepper and called kanthari mulagu. In English it is known as Thai bird's eye pepper or chili pepper.


Cayenne fruit changes color from green to red when ripe. Although smaller in size than other varieties of chili, he is considered quite spicy because the hot levels reach 50000-100000 on the Scoville scale. Regular chili sold in markets along with other chili varieties.


Cayenne pepper is grown in the garden as a vegetable or plant grows wild in fields and derelict wasteland. These plants originated from tropical America, like dry areas, and are found at a height of 0.5 to 1250 m asl. Shrubs year, many branching, 50-100 cm tall. Jointed trunk or upper-book angle. Single leaf, stemmed, alternating the location. Leaf blade ovate, pointed tip, base narrowed, flat edge, pinnate, 5 to 9.5 cm long, 1.5 to 5.5 cm wide, green. Interest out of the armpit leaves, crown form of stars, a single flower or 2-3 adjacent flowers, white, greenish white, sometimes purple. The fruit blueberries, upright, occasionally ducking, oval, straight or curved, tapered tip, 1-3 cm long, 2.5 to 12 mm wide, long-stemmed, and spicy taste. Young fruit dark green, greenish white, or white, the fruit is bright red .

there is a lot of Seeds, round flat, 2-2.5 mm in diameter, and the color is yellow.

Capsaicin gives chili spicy flavor on, efficacious for blood flow and skin anaesthetizer. Seeds contain solanine, solamidine, solamargine, solasodine, solasomine, and steroidal saponins (kapsisidin). Kapsisidin efficacious as antibiotics.

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