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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

List of Chemicals

Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemicals Reference
AESCULETIN Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
ALPHATOCOPHEROL Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
ASCORBICACID Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
BETACAROTENE Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
BETASITOSTEROL *
CAFFEICACID Ki Soon Rhee. Oilseed Food Ingredients Used To Minimize Oxidative Flavor Deterioration in Meat Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.18.
CITRICACID Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
CRYPTOXANTHIN Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
ESCULETIN Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
FERULICACID Ki Soon Rhee. Oilseed Food Ingredients Used To Minimize Oxidative Flavor Deterioration in Meat Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.18.
KAEMPFEROL Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
LIMONENE Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
MYRCENE Kauderer, B., Zamith, H., Paumgartten, F.J.R., and Speit, G. Evaluation of the Mutagenicity of B-Myrcene in Mammalian Cells In Vitro. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis 18: 28-34, 1991.
NARINGENIN Maga, J.A. Contribution of Phenolic Compounds to Smoke Flavor. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.13.
NARINGIN Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
NNONACOSANE Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
OSTHOL Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PECTIN *
QUERCETIN Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
SCOPOLETIN Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.