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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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FAT

Chemical ID
FAT
Ubiquitous
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List of chemical plants.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Plant Name Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
Azadirachta indica Seed 450000.0 1.0 *
Bacopa monnieri Shoot 6000.0 -0.8 Wealth of India.
Bactris gasipaes Fruit 28000.0 163400.0 0.6 *
Bactris gasipaes Seed 313000.0 0.3 Morton, J.F., Major Medicinal Plants. 1977. Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America. Bahamas to Yucatan. 1981.
Balanites aegyptiacus Fruit 0.0 17000.0 -0.5 *
Balanites aegyptiacus Leaf 42000.0 -0.3 *
Balanites aegyptiacus Seed 300000.0 550000.0 1.5 *
Balanites aegyptiacus Shoot 15000.0 -0.6 *
Basella alba Leaf 3000.0 43475.0 -0.3 *
Benincasa hispida Fruit 1000.0 51280.0 -0.2 *
Berberis vulgaris Bark 43000.0 1.8 *
Berberis vulgaris Root 43000.0 0.7 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
Bertholletia excelsa Seed 649190.0 700000.0 2.3 *
Beta vulgaris Leaf 2000.0 58000.0 0.0 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Beta vulgaris Root 1000.0 16000.0 -0.2 *
Beta vulgaris Seed 28000.0 70000.0 -1.0 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
Betula lenta Leaf 86000.0 0.6 Jim Duke's personal files.*
Bixa orellana Fruit 3000.0 19230.0 -0.5 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Bixa orellana Seed 15000.0 50000.0 -1.1 *
Blighia sapida Aril 200000.0 649000.0 1.2 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses