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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
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.
GALLICACID *
ISOQUERCITRIN *
LIGNIN *
MALICACID Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
PCOUMARICACID *
QUERCETIN *
RUTIN *
SELENIUM Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
TOCOPHEROL Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
URSOLICACID Cancer Research, 54: 701, 1994.