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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
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Fruit 240.0 2400.0 1.87 *
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 2200.0 32500.0 1.29 *
POTASSIUM 14 Seed 8200.0 -0.38 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PROLINE 0 Fruit 450.0 14930.0 3.00 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 2000.0 122000.0 0.17 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 193800.0 200600.0 -0.30 *
PUFA 4 Fruit 270.0 2700.0 -0.65 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
QUERCETIN 176 Flower ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
QUERCETIN-3-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Flower Wealth of India.
QUERCETIN-3-TRIGLUCOSIDE 0 Flower Wealth of India.
QUERCETIN-4'-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Flower Wealth of India.
QUERCETIN-4'-GLUCOSIDE 1 Flower Wealth of India.
QUERCETIN-5-GLUCOSIDE 0 Flower Wealth of India.
QUERCETIN-5-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE 0 Flower Wealth of India.
QUERCETIN-7-GLUCOSIDE 0 Flower Wealth of India.
RHAMNOSE 0 Fruit 600.0 Wealth of India.
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 0.6 7.0 0.43 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Seed 1.4 -0.81 Wealth of India.
SALICYLATES 7 Fruit 5.0 -0.32 *
SERINE 1 Fruit 440.0 4510.0 0.31 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Cardioprotective 8 *
Cardiotoxic 1 *
Caspase-3-Inducer 1 *
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 *
Catabolic 1 *
Chemopreventive 2 *
Choleretic 2 *
Circulotonic 2 *
CNS-Depressant 2 Martindale's 28th
CNS-Paralytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cold-preventive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Collagenic 2 *
Comedogenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Comedolytic 1 *
COMT-Inhibitor 1 *
Contraceptive 1 Martindale's 28th
Contraceptive (Male) 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Copper-Antagonist 1 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
Copper-Chelator 1 *
Cosmetic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.