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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Allium sativum var. sativum (Liliaceae)

Common Names
Garlic
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
DEOXYALLIIN 0 Bulb *
DESGALACTOTIGONIN 1 Root 400.0 *
DESOXYRIBONUCLEASE 0 Bulb *
DI-1-PROPENYL-TRISULFIDE 0 Bulb 139.0 *
DI-PROP-2-ENYL-SULFANE 0 Bulb *
DI-PROP-2-ENYL-TRISULFIDE 0 Essential Oil *
DIALLYL-DISULFIDE 26 Bud *
DIALLYL-DISULFIDE 26 Bulb 16.0 634.0 *
DIALLYL-DISULFIDE 26 Essential Oil *
DIALLYL-DISULFIDE 26 Fruit Juice Deruaz, D., et. al. 1994. Analytical Strategy by Coupling Headspace Gas Chromatography, Atomic Emission Spectrometric Detection and Mass Spectrometry Application to Sulfur Compounds from Garlic. J. Chromatogr., 677(2): 345-354.
DIALLYL-HEPTASULFIDE 1 Bulb *
DIALLYL-HEXASULFIDE 1 Bulb *
DIALLYL-MONOSULFIDE 0 Bulb *
DIALLYL-PENTASULFIDE 2 Bulb *
DIALLYL-SULFIDE 25 Bulb 2.0 99.0 *
DIALLYL-SULFIDE 25 Essential Oil *
DIALLYL-SULFIDE 25 Fruit Juice Deruaz, D., et. al. 1994. Analytical Strategy by Coupling Headspace Gas Chromatography, Atomic Emission Spectrometric Detection and Mass Spectrometry Application to Sulfur Compounds from Garlic. J. Chromatogr., 677(2): 345-354.
DIALLYL-TETRASULFIDE 5 Bulb 119.0 *
DIALLYL-TRISULFIDE 28 Bud *
DIALLYL-TRISULFIDE 28 Bulb 870.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
Juvabional 3 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lachrymatory 1 *
Larvicide 4 *
Larvistat 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 11 *
Leptingenic 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
Leucocytogenic 1 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 11 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Lipotropic 2 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 9 *
Lithogenic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic 1 *
Lubricant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 *
Lymphocytogenic 1 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.