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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
3NBUTYLPHTHALIDE *
5METHOXYPSORALEN Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
8METHOXYPSORALEN Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
ALPHATOCOPHEROL *
APIGENIN *
BENZALDEHYDE *
BERGAPTEN *
BETACAROTENE Simon, P.W. Carrots and Other Horticultural Crops as a Source of Provitamin A Carotenes. HortScience, 25(12): 1495, 1990.
CAFFEICACID *
CHLOROGENICACID Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CITRICACID Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
FALCARINOL *
FIBER Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FUMARICACID Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
GERANIOL Yu, S.G., Anderson, P.J., and Elson, C.E. 1995. Efficacy of B-Ionone in the Chemoprevention of Rat Mammary Carcinogenesis. J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2144-2147.
KAEMPFEROL *
LIMONENE *
MALICACID Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
NARINGENIN *
PCOUMARICACID *