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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Abelmoschus esculentus (Malvaceae)

Common Names
Okra
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SFA 0 Fruit 260.0 2600.0 -0.32 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SODIUM 1 Fruit 10.0 1000.0 -0.09 *
STARCH 5 Seed 89200.0 -0.89 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 7200.0 10120.0 -0.35 *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Root 60.0 -0.47 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
SUGAR 0 Seed 40300.0 -0.46 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SULFUR 14 Fruit 140.0 1400.0 -0.01 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.8 20.0 1.88 *
THIAMIN 31 Seed 6.9 0.08 Wealth of India.
THREONINE 4 Fruit 650.0 6500.0 1.45 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Fruit 170.0 1710.0 1.21 *
TYROSINE 8 Fruit 480.0 8700.0 2.60 *
VALINE 3 Fruit 910.0 9100.0 0.96 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VIT-B-6 0 Fruit 2.0 22.0 2.32 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
WATER 0 Fruit 880000.0 895000.0 0.54 *
WATER 0 Seed 98900.0 -0.49 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ZINC 77 Fruit 6.0 60.0 0.89 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
11B-HSD-Inhibitor 1 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 5 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 1 *
Absorbent 1 Martindale's 29th
Acaricide 1 *
Acarifuge 1 *
ACE-Inhibitor 3 *
Acidulant 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Adjuvant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 4 *
Allelochemic 1 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allergenic 6 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Amebicide 1 *
Analgesic 5 *
Anaphrodisiac 1 Martindale's 29th
Androgenic 1 *
Anemiagenic 2 *
Anesthetic 1 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.