Herbal Cayenne, the Best Antioxidant Functional Fruit

Herbal Cayenne may have a potential effect in stimulating the production of antioxidants from the host body to inhibit the overexpression of free radicals, some scientists suggested.

Free radicals are unstable molecules having an unpaired electron in the outer ring. in order for them to maintain stable, free radical must donate or steal an electron from another molecule, leading to a domino's chain reaction that cannot stop until inhibited by antioxidant or they are paired.

Antioxidants are stable molecules that inhibit the free radical oxidation and the unpaired electrons which are highly and chemically reactive in the human body.

Normally, the expression of free radicals is neutralized by antioxidants produced by the host body enzymes. However, if the host antioxidant enzymes are suppressed, free radical can overexpress, leading to oxidative stress.

Overexpression of free radicals in initiating oxidative stress to the human body can cause oxidative damage to the cells, proteins, and DNA, the underlying factors in many chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.


Most common free radicals have been found to cause significant damage to DNA, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids of the cell nucleus, and membranes are hydroxyl radical, superoxide anion radical, hydrogen peroxide, oxygen singlet, hypochlorite, nitric oxide radical, and peroxynitrite radical.

The causes of the production of free radicals are associated either from normal essential metabolic processes in the human body inducing diet or from external sources such as exposure to X-rays, ozone, cigarette smoking, air pollutants, and industrial chemicals.

People who follow the Western diet high in saturated and trans fat, red meat and processed foods ( high oxidation) and low in fruits and vegetable (low antioxidants) are susceptible to the overexpression of free radical or oxidative stress.

Truly, Fats and oils not can be oxidized during storage as a result of exposure to light, air but also can become oxidized, creating free radicals, if they are heated in high temperature, the main cooking style found in the Western diet.


Saturated fats are less likely than unsaturated fats to become oxidized. When cooking fats are reused, they become more oxidized and produce even more free radicals.

Cayenne is also known as Cayenne pepper, a red, hot chili pepper, belonging to Capsicum annuum, the family Solanaceae, native to sub-tropical and tropical regions.

The kitchen spice has been used in traditional medicine to increases metabolism, enhance circulatory system and stomach and the intestinal tract, adjust blood pressure, lower LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, treat frostbite, muscles, arthritis, rheumatism, low back pain, strains, sprains, bruises, and neuralgia, etc.

The chemical constituents of Cayenne include capsaicin, capsaicin oil, solaine, xanthenes, oleic acid, palmitic acid, etc.

In the investigation of the antioxidant activity, DPPH radical-scavenging activity correlated with total bioactive compounds (capsaicinoids, carotenoids, flavonoids, and total phenolics) in pepper cultivars, researchers at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid launched a study on the individual carotenoid and phenolic content as well as the antioxidant properties of four red-hot dried cultivars (Capsicum annuum L.).


Hot dried peppers at ripe stage demonstrated the high content of bioactive compounds that exhibited significant antioxidant properties (26-80 micromol Trolox equivalents/g of dry matter), compared to polyphenols >2000 mg/100 g of dry matter and carotenoids ranging from 95-437 mg/100 g of dry matter.

The amount released from the food matrix by the action of digestive enzymes was about 75% for total polyphenols, up to 49% for both beta-carotene and zeaxanthin, and up to 41% for beta-cryptoxanthin.


And, 50 to 80% of these carotenoids could reach the colon to be potentially fermented or could remain unavailable.


Furthermore, the study of sweet red bell pepper, one of the best sources of ascorbic acid and carotenoids and phenolic compounds important in the human diet, researchers emphasized that organic growing increased the level of antioxidant compounds such as carotenoids, phenolic compounds and vitamin C in sweet bell pepper, compared to conventional cultivated.


However, the second significant factor affecting the antioxidant compound content of sweet bell pepper was totally depending on the varieties.


Geography, climate change environment factors and time of harvest may also affect the antioxidant contents of the bell pepper.


Taken altogether, herbal cayenne processed a high amount of bioactive antioxidants may be considered a functional food for reducing the risk of oxidative stress-related diseases.


Due to numbers of an unknown factor which may affect the quality of the fruits, further data collection large example size and multi-centers studies performed with human consumption of the whole food during the course of the disease will be necessary to complete the picture of herbal cayenne antioxidant possibilities.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bioscience, ISSN 0975-6299.

References
(1) Bioactive compounds of four hot pepper varieties (Capsicum annuum L.), antioxidant capacity, and intestinal bioaccessibility by Hervert-Hernández D1, Sáyago-Ayerdi SG, Goñi I.(PubMed)
(2) Characterisation of antioxidant compounds in sweet bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) under organic and conventional growing systems by Hallmann E1, Rembiałkowska E.(PubMed)