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In Urfa peppers which contain a high level of capsaicin having an antioxidant effect, losses of colour compounds for both varieties were found to be lower then that of the sweet peppers. The losses of capsantin in the treatments decreased by decreasing lipoxygenase enzyme activity. Before storage of sweet peppers, vitamin C content (170.20 mg/100 g) decreased to 79.05 mg/100 g (53.52%) in the tenth month. This reduction in Urfa peppers was from 201.62 mg/100 g to 111.75 mg/100 g, which is 44.78%. In samples of non-blanched Urfa peppers, capsaicin content was found to be 56.34 mg/100 g. Before the storage loss of capsaicin was up to 16.08% with blanching at 85 ° C for 4 min. At the end of the storage period, capsaicin content of non-blanched peppers was lower then that of microwave and water-blanched peppers. 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