Cayenne pepper

Capsicum annuum var. acuminatumAlso called caynne powder

Cayenne pepper is a spice made from the fruit and seeds. Cooks use it to season food.

Category: Herbs & spices
Part used: Fruit, seed
Family: Solanaceae
Cooked most in: Africa, The Americas, Asia
Top country: Nigeria
Dishes: 6 in the catalogue
Energy: 318 kcal per 100 g

Photo: Alabama Extension · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use cayenne pepper

Typical ways to cook or use it

Season

Nutrition

What 100 g of cayenne pepper holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 14%Fat 20%Carbohydrate 66%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of cayenne pepper
Energy	318 kcal · 1,331 kJ
Protein	12 g
Fat	17 g
of which saturated	3.3 g
Carbohydrate	57 g
of which sugars	10 g
Fibre	27 g
Sodium	30 mg
Cholesterol	0 mg

Nutrition per 100 g of cayenne pepper: minerals and vitamins
Potassium	2,014 mg
Calcium	148 mg
Iron	7.8 mg
Magnesium	152 mg
Zinc	2.5 mg
Vitamin C	76 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)	2,081 µg
Folate	106 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 170932), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where cayenne pepper is cooked

6 dishes in the catalogue use cayenne pepper. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list cayenne pepper among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with cayenne pepper

6 dishes in the catalogue use it.

Maranggi satay
Indonesia
Martino
Belgium
Draw soup
Nigeria
Shrimp étouffée
United States
Kilishi
Niger, Nigeria
Suya
Nigeria

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include cayenne pepper.

Around the world

What cayenne pepper is called

Names in 14 languages, from Wikidata.

French
piment de Cayenne
German
Cayennepfeffer · Paprika rosenscharf
Russian
каейнский перец · молотый каейнский перец · молотый перец · перец кайенский
Polish
Pieprz cayenne
Basque
Kaiena
Czech
kajenský pepř
Esperanto
Kajena pipro
Galician
Pementa de Caiena
Hungarian
Cayenne-bors · cayenne-i bors
Latin
pulvis cayennae · piper cayennense
Luxembourgish
Cayennepeffer
Norwegian Bokmål
Kajennepepper

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Norwegian Nynorsk
Kajennepepar
Slovenian
kajenski poper · kajenska paprika

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
USDA FoodData Central (Foundation, SR Legacy): nutrition values (Public domain (US government work, CC0))
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q52075540

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