Plant Aframomum melegueta (Zingiberaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Alligator Pepper, Grains-of-Paradise, Guinea Grains, Melegueta Pepper, Malagettapfeffer (Ger.), Malagueta (Sp.)

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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 Sort descending	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
6-PARADOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
6-SHOGAOL	32	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
7-GINGEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
7-PARADOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
8-GINGEROL	5	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
8-PARADOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
ASH	0	Fruit	42000.0	103000.0	1.20	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	25000.0	105000.0	1.72	Wealth of India.
BORNEOL	35	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	750.0	9500.0	1.30	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	278000.0	352000.0	-2.30	Duke, 1992 *
CINEOLE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
EO	0	Seed	3000.0	80000.0	0.46	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Fruit	not available	20000.0	-0.49	Wealth of India.
FAT	0	Seed	10000.0	20000.0	-1.29	Wealth of India.
FIBER	15	Fruit	not available	242000.0	0.95	Wealth of India.
FIBER	15	Seed	110000.0	170000.0	0.28	Wealth of India.
GINGEROL	27	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXYPHENYLALKANOLES	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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