Plant Allium cepa (Liliaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Onion; Shallot

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
TYROSINE	8	Bulb	290.0	3161.0	-1.00	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VALINE	3	Bulb	270.0	2943.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Bulb	not available	258.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Bulb	1.0	18.0	not available	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
WATER	0	Bulb	866000.0	918000.0	0.78	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Leaf	not available	922000.0	0.57	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
XYLITOL	10	Bulb	not available	not available	not available	Counsell, J. N., Roberton, D. J. 1976. Xylitol-A Sweetener Which is Kind to the Teeth. Food Process Ind., 45(54): 24-26.
XYLOSE	3	Bulb	not available	not available	not available	Sinha, A. 1959. Chemical Examination of Allium cepa. I. Glycosidic and Sugar Fractions. Indian J. Appl. Chem., 22: 89-91.
ZEAXANTHIN	5	Bulb	not available	not available	not available	Granado, F., Olmedilla, B., Blanco, I., Rojas-Hidalgo, E. 1992. Carotenoid Composition in Raw and Cooked Spanish Vegetables. J. Agr. Food Chem., 40(11): 2135-2140.
ZINC	77	Bulb	2.0	53.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Seed	not available	34.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
ZIRCONIUM	0	Bulb	0.8	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Anxiolytic	8	Merck 11th Edition
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphrodisiac	2	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Apoptotic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Arteriodilator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Arylamine-N-Acetyltransferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Ascaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent	2	Duke, 1992 *
Atherogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
ATPase-Inhibitor	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Avifuge	1	LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
Bacteristat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Blocker	3	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Bilirubinolytic	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Bradycardiac	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.