Chili peppers have a wide range of uses, including pharmaceutical,
natural coloring agents and cosmetics, as an ornamental plant, and as the
active ingredient in most defense repellants (i.e. pepper sprays) .Capsaicin,
a well-studied chemical component of the Capsicum species and one of the
pungent capsaicinoids found in chili peppers, has already demonstrated
a high degree of biological activity affecting the nervous, cardiovascular,
and digestive systems [5]. Chemical analysis has demonstrated that Capsicum fruits contain relatively high concentrations of several
essential nutrients, including vitamin C (up to 6 times the concentration
of an orange)