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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
ANGELICIN *
ANTHOCYANINS *
ASCORBICACID Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
BENZALDEHYDE *
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.
CINNAMALDEHYDE HerbalGram No. 24, page 40.
CINNAMYLALCOHOL Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
CITRICACID Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
CRYPTOXANTHIN Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
EUGENOL 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.
LINALOOL *
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.
PECTIN *
PSORALEN Saqib, Q. N., Hui, Y. H., Anderson, J. E. and McLaughlin, J. L. 1990. Bioactive Furanocoumarins from the Berries of Zanthoxylum americanum. Phytotherapy Research 4(6): 216-219.
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.