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Plant Ananas comosus (Bromeliaceae)

Common Names
Pineapple
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Sort descending Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit 0.0 3.0 -0.15 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BETA-METHYL-THIOPROPIONIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER 0 Plant not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-METHYL-THIOPROPIONIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Plant not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit not available 40.0 -0.74 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BIACETYL 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BORON 4 Fruit not available 0.2 -0.80 Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
BROMELAIN 54 Fruit not available 800.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
BROMELAIN 54 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BROMELAIN 54 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BROMELAIN 54 Pericarp not available 750.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
BROMELAIN 54 Stem 400.0 6000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
BROMELIN 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BUTYL-FORMATE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Fruit not available not available not available Wealth of India.
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 62.0 1308.0 -0.59 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTANOL 0 Leaf not available not available not available Wealth of India.
CAMPESTEROL 2 Fruit not available 10.0 -0.57 Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 116000.0 938000.0 0.83 Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE 1 Fruit 4300.0 5400.0 -0.61 Duke, 1992 *
CHAVICOL 3 Fruit not available 0.3 -0.94 Duke, 1992 *
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