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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Ananas comosus (Bromeliaceae)

Common Names
Pineapple
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
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 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-METHYL-THIOPROPIONIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit 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 *
BORON 4 Fruit 0.2 -0.80 Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages.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 800.0 *
BROMELAIN 54 Fruit Juice *
BROMELAIN 54 Leaf *
BROMELAIN 54 Pericarp 750.0 *
BROMELAIN 54 Stem 400.0 6000.0 *
BROMELIN 0 Fruit *
BUTYL-FORMATE 0 Fruit *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Fruit Wealth of India.
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 62.0 1308.0 -0.59 *
CAMPESTANOL 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
CAMPESTEROL 2 Fruit 10.0 -0.57 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 116000.0 938000.0 0.83 *
CELLULOSE 1 Fruit 4300.0 5400.0 -0.61 *
CHAVICOL 3 Fruit 0.3 -0.94 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 6 *
Abortifacient 1 *
Absorbent 1 Martindale's 29th
Acaricide 2 *
Acarifuge 1 *
ACE-Inhibitor 2 *
Acetylcholinergic 1 *
Acidulant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Acnegenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Addictive 1 Science News, 145: 294.
Adjuvant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Aggregant 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 4 Ichikawa, K., et al. 1991. Isolation and Structure Determination of Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Traditional Thai Medicine, and Syntheses of Their Derivatives. Sankyo Kenkyusho Nempo, 43: 99-110.
Allelochemic 1 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allelopathic 3 Holappa, L.D., and Blum*, U. 1991. Effects of Exogenously Applied Ferulic Acid, a Potential Allelopathic Compound, on Leaf Growth, Water Utilization, and Endogenous Abscisic Acid Levels of Tomato, Cucumber, and Bean. J. of Chemical Ecology, 17(5): 865.
Allergenic 12 Mitchell, J. and Rook, A.J. 1923. Botanical Dermatology: plants and plant products injurious to the skin. Vancouver: Greengrass, 1979. xiii, 787 p.: ill.
Alpha-Amylase-Inhibitor 1 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Analeptic 2 *
Analgesic 8 *