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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Anacardium occidentale (Anacardiaceae)

Common Names
Cashew
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
COBALT 2 Seed 0.1 -0.20 *
COPPER 12 Seed 22.0 37.0 2.01 *
CYSTINE 2 Seed 2830.0 2879.0 -0.19 *
EUROPIUM 0 Seed 0.0 -0.53 *
FAT 0 Fruit 1000.0 49000.0 -0.27 *
FAT 0 Leaf 6000.0 20000.0 -0.73 *
FAT 0 Seed 370000.0 482000.0 1.14 *
FIBER 15 Fruit 6000.0 42000.0 -0.94 *
FIBER 15 Seed 7120.0 29000.0 -0.84 *
FLUORINE 0 Seed 1.4 -0.17 *
FOLACIN 15 Seed 0.7 -0.79 *
GADOLEIC-ACID 0 Seed 1390.0 1414.0 -0.52 *
GALACTOSE 1 Resin, Exudate, Sap *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Seed *
GINGKOL 0 Bark *
GLUCOSE 7 Resin, Exudate, Sap *
GLUCURONIC-ACID 4 Resin, Exudate, Sap *
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Seed 36240.0 36867.0 -0.20 *
GLYCINE 12 Seed 8030.0 8169.0 -0.40 *
GOLD 3 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Collagenic 2 *
Colorant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Comedogenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Comedolytic 2 Martindale's 29th
Contraceptive 1 Martindale's 28th
Copper-Antagonist 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
Cosmetic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor 2 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 3 Newmark, T. M. and Schulick, P. 2000. Herbal Cox-2 Inhibition - Nature's Challenge to Arthritis, Cancer & Alzheimer's Disease. Hohm Press, Prescott AZ.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 4 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor 1 Pizzorno, J. 1998. Total Wellness. Prima Health, a division of Prima.
Cytotoxic 1 *
Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant 3 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diagnostic 1 Martindale's 28th
Diuretic 6 *