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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
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.
CHLOROPHYLL Lawson, T., J. Nunnaly, B. Walker, E. Bresnick, D. Wheeler, and M. Wheeler. 1989. Isolation of compounds with antimutagenic activity from savoy chieftain cabbage. J. Agric. Food Chem. 37:1363-1367.
CITRICACID 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.
SAPONINS *
TANNIN *