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Capsicum spp. and nutritional differences

karoo said:
Thank you , interesting !
Love that pic on age 3 that shows all the different peppers.
lol funny how a lot of those peppers are not ripe.
then again it would be Super Hard to find ripe specimens for testing all at the same time.
 
Malarky said:
lol funny how a lot of those peppers are not ripe.
then again it would be Super Hard to find ripe specimens for testing all at the same time.
I bet ripeness would affect the nutrients also, for a fair comparison they would all ideally be fully ripe.
 
We would like to assume the peppers were just for the picture and that true scientists would have only tested a good and ripe specimen of each. :confused:
 
karoo said:
We would like to assume the peppers were just for the picture and that true scientists would have only tested a good and ripe specimen of each. :confused:
Agreed. The point of this study was to compare nutritional values between varieties. If they are not all fully ripe then the figures don't mean anything!
 
karoo said:
We would like to assume the peppers were just for the picture and that true scientists would have only tested a good and ripe specimen of each. :confused:
 
I disagree, They harvested all at the same time and the purpose of the photographs is to show what was used for the experiment.  I think it is very likely that unripe pods were used for this experiment.  also take a look at this from the Materials and Methods:
 
Seeds from each pepper type were sown in five gallon containers using a standard potting mix indoors under fluorescent lights followed by metal halide lighting. The soil was fertilized with Pure Blend Pro Grow (3-2-4), Pure Blend Pro Bloom (2-3-5), and Cal-Mag Plus (all from Botanicare, AZ) for a ten-week period following the manufacturer’s recommendations. Plants were then left in pots and grown outdoors in a completely random design with two replications in Madison, WI during the summer of 2013.
 
All plants were given the same treatment, which is good for a randomized design, but probably not representative of how they will be grown in the field, IE how you will be able to buy them in the store.
 
This criticism is kind of a double edged sword, because if they had grown them replicating production (which I believe is mostly transplanting sprouts into plasticulture? farmer please correct me) by planting each variety at a specific day according to their "days to fruiting" so that they could all be harvested at once, then we would have criticized them for not doing a good job of randomizing their experimental design.
 
 
On a seprate note from the nutrition story: this is probably the best scientific comparison of pepper heat that has been done recently. I am going to post below the supplemental table of their relative capsicum content (converted to SHU) for each variety.  Note: these values may be different from ones that you're used to seeing, but they are scientifically accurate relative values to one another, as the experimental design was a RCBD with 2 replicates.
 
Pepper Type - Average SHU - Critical value = 262963.1
Trinidad 7 Pot 852405 a
Trinidad Douglah 709629 ab
Brown Bhut Jolokia 644207 abc
Trinidad Butch T Scorpion 633416 abcd
Bhut Jolokia 616806 abcd
Orange Trinidad Moruga 615557 abcd
Trinidad Moruga Scorpion 604612 abcd
Scotch Bonnet 599329 abcd
Red Habanero Hot 588728 abcd
Naga Dorset 582774 abcd
Naga Morich 582422 abcd
White Habanero 569069 abcde
Amish Chicken 562289 abcde
Yellow Moruga 538879 abcdef
Chocolate Habanero 521007 abcdefg
Mayan Cobanero 488531 abcdefgh
Orange Thai 482367 abcdefgh
Chili De Arbol 464497 abcdefgh
Orange Habanero Hot 462006 abcdefgh
Laotian 456391 abcdefgh
Twilight 427990 abcdefgh
Peach Habanero 399703 abcdefgh
Bulgarian Carrot 394938 abcdefgh
Yellow Bhut Jolokia (Ghost Pepper) 391264 abcdefgh
Malaysian Goronong 364484 abcdefgh
Haiti Cluster 362095 bcdefgh
Atomic Starfish 285706 bcdefgh
Cajamarca 283783 bcdefgh
Korean Kim Chi 282309 bcdefgh
Aji Amarillo 271379 bcdefgh
Guajillo 255863 bcdefgh
Aji Limon 254374 bcdefgh
Pakistan 242768 bcdefgh
Bahama Fish 239947 bcdefgh
Tepin 215670 cdefgh
Jamaican Yellow 215656 cdefgh
5 Color Marble 177471 cdefgh
Mustard Habanero 139718 defgh
White Bhut Jolokia 132683 defgh
Succette De Provence 79666 efgh
Jalamundo 71010 fgh
Aji Crystal 69126 fgh
Uba Tuba 54276 fgh
Joe's Long Cayenne 50491 fgh
Pasilla 44384 gh
Manzano 40091 gh
Lady Bug Cherry Bomb 23262 h
Lilac Bell 19870 h
Ancho 17706 h
Spanish Cayenne 16969 h
Orange Suave 15438 h
Sangria 14842 h
Rocoto Yellow 11262 h
Santa Fe Grande 10078 h
Shishito 9789 h
Zavory Habanero 7685 h
Banana Sweet 7273
Buran 5647 h
Chinese Ching Choo 5457 h
Aconcagua 5306 h
Ancient Sweet 5022 h
Sandia 5000 h
Sunrise 4834 h
 
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