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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Chemical SORBITOL

Chemical ID
SORBITOL
Ubiquitous
No

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List of chemical activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Dosage Reference
Antidiabetic (Insulin-Sparing) 30 g/man/day Martindale's 28th
Antiketotic Merck 11th Edition
Cataractagenic Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Cathartic *
Diuretic Merck 11th Edition
FLavor FEMA 1,000-280,000 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Humectant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 5-15 g/man/day Martindale's 28th
Laxative 20-50 g/day Martindale's 29th
Purgative 30-50 g/man/day Martindale's 28th
Sweetener 0.6 x sucrose Merck 11th Edition
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