The spice paprika has some sig­ni­fic­ance it­self us­ing it only as spice. The paprika is used in dif­fer­ent walk­s of life, think­ing only, that Al­ber­t Szent-György­i dragged out the C-vit­am­in from the paprika. Be­sides us­ing it in food-in­dustry the paprika an­d the raw ma­ter­i­al ex­tract­ing from it is util­ized in health­care an­d in cos­met­ic in­dustry.

The use of paprika in cos­met­ic­s

Cap­sic­um is tra­di­tion­ally known as a food in­dus­tri­al plant. This does­n't mean a lim­it­a­tion re­gard­ing oth­er areas; on the con­trary, by ac­quir­ing new in­form­a­tion it point­s to new, al­tern­at­ive pos­sib­il­it­ies. Mod­ern health­care is hol­ist­ic­ally ap­proached - this means that a­mon­g oth­er factor­s, ex­tern­al cos­met­ic in­ter­ven­tion­s have the same im­port­ance as food con­sum­ing an­d di­et­s. Tak­ing in­to ac­coun­t this fact, the qual­ity an­d quant­ity of the main an­d sec­ond­ary product­s dis­covered by the re­search of cap­sic­um pre­par­a­tion, we can state that the use of cap­sic­um in the cos­met­ic in­dustry can be suc­cess­fully solved.


Al­ber­t Szent-György­i

Al­ber­t Szent-György­i (16 Sept. 1893, Bud­apest - 22 Oct. 1986, Wood­s Hall, Mas­sachu­sett­s): bio­chemist, mem­ber of the Hun­gari­an S­ci­en­ti­fic Academy (reg­u­lar mem­ber­: 1935, hon­our­able mem­ber­: 1945), win­ner of the No­bel Prize (1937). Des­cend­ant of the fam­ous s­ci­ent­ist dyn­asty, the Len­hoss fam­ily. Uni­versity stud­ies: 1911-17, Uni­versity of Bud­apest. As a stu­dent of medi­cine he was in­ter­ested in mor­pho­logy, later on he did biopsies in the in­sti­tute run by his un­cle, Mi­hály Len­hoss. He par­ti­cip­ated in the First World War as a med­ic­al stu­dent, but soon got wounded an­d was de­mo­bil­ised. Af­ter gradu­at­ing in medi­cine he both im­proved his know­ledge an­d kep­t courses in Brat­is­lava, Prague, Ber­lin, Leiden, C­groin­eng, an­d Cam­bridge (here he ac­quired a PhD in Chem­istry in 1927). 1931-1945: he was the pro­fess­or of the Fer­encz Józ­se­f Uni­versity of Szeged, Med­ic­al Chem­istry In­sti­tute. 1945-1947: he was a pro­fess­or