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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
ALLANTOIN *
ALPHALINOLENICACID Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
ASCORBICACID 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
ASTRAGALIN *
BENZALDEHYDE *
BETACAROTENE Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
CAFFEICACID *
CHLOROGENICACID *
COUMARIN *
FERULICACID Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
FOLICACID *
GALLICACID McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
MELATONIN Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
PHOSPHORUS Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
PROTOCATECHUICACID Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
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
SQUALENE Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ZINC Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.