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
Antiarteriosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatheromic	1	Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	6	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	4	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	6	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.