Plant Ananas comosus (Bromeliaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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	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BORON	4	Fruit	not available	0.2	-0.80	Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages.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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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
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	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Culicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Demulcent	2	Duke, 1992 *
Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Dermatitigenic	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Detoxicant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Digestive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Disinfectant	1	Martindale's 29th