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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Ananas comosus (Bromeliaceae)

Common Names
Pineapple
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PROPYL-ACETATE 0 Fruit *
PROPYL-FORMATE 0 Fruit *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 4000.0 55000.0 -0.73 *
PUFA 4 Fruit 1460.0 10815.0 -0.07 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 0.0 3.0 -0.43 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SALICYLATES 7 Fruit 10.0 150.0 0.09 *
SERINE 1 Fruit 250.0 1852.0 -0.63 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SEROTONIN 26 Fruit 19.0 60.0 0.92 *
SFA 0 Fruit 320.0 2370.0 -0.33 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SILICON 4 Fruit 110.0 690.0 1.63 *
SINAPIC-ACID 9 Fruit Wealth of India.
SODIUM 1 Fruit 10.0 347.0 -0.15 *
STARCH 5 Fruit 19.0 -0.46 *
STARCH 5 Leaf 30000.0 -0.15 Wealth of India.
STARCH 5 Stem 100000.0 150000.0 1.00 Wealth of India.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit 110.0 815.0 -0.23 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STIGMAST-5-ENE-3-BETA-7-ALPHA-DIOL 1 Plant *
STIGMASTANOL 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
STIGMASTEROL 12 Fruit 0.0 -1.17 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
SUBAPHYLLIN 3 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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