Plant Actinidia chinensis (Actinidiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Kiwi

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
LEVULOSE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN	15	Fruit	1.8	9.0	-0.06	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Fruit	300.0	1770.0	-0.17	Duke, 1992 *
NEOCHROME	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOXANTHIN	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Fruit	5.0	30.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Fruit	4200.0	24800.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	300.0	3060.0	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	3320.0	19600.0	0.15	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Fruit	7900.0	62830.0	-0.63	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUINIC-ACID	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Fruit	0.5	3.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Fruit	50.0	295.0	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *
SUCCINIC-ACID	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Fruit	not available	9500.0	-0.82	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Fruit	0.2	1.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
TOCOPHEROL	93	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLAXANTHIN	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Carcinogenic	2	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardioprotective	7	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Catabolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cerebroprotective	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	3	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Circulatory-Stimulant	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Circulotonic	2	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Depressant	1	Facciola, S. 1998. Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. Kampong Publications, Vista CA. 713 pp.
Cold-preventive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Collagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Colorant	5	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Copper-Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *