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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
METHIONINE 15 Fruit 110.0 815.0 -0.18 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
METHYL-ACETATE 3 Fruit *
METHYL-BETA-ACETOXYHEXANOATE 0 Fruit 0.0 *
METHYL-BETA-HYDROXYBUTYRATE 0 Fruit 0.0 *
METHYL-BETA-HYDROXYHEXANOATE 0 Fruit 0.0 *
METHYL-BETA-METHYLTHIOPROPIONATE 0 Fruit 0.1 1.1 *
METHYL-BUTYRATE 2 Fruit *
METHYL-CAPROATE 2 Fruit *
METHYL-CAPRYLATE 2 Fruit 0.8 *
METHYL-CIS-(4?)-OCTENOATE 0 Fruit 0.0 *
METHYL-ISOBUTYRATE 0 Fruit *
METHYL-ISOCAPROATE 0 Fruit 1.4 *
METHYL-ISOVALERATE 2 Fruit 0.6 *
METHYL-N-PROPYL-KETONE 0 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
MUFA 13 Fruit 480.0 3556.0 -0.20 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MYRICYL-ALCOHOL 0 Plant Wealth of India.
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Leaf Wealth of India.
N-VALERIANIC-ACID 0 Fruit *
NIACIN 39 Fruit 2.0 33.0 -0.37 *
NITRATE 0 Fruit 0.0 1200.0 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hypocholesterolemic 15 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic 6 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic 3 *
Hypotensive 12 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Hypothermic 1 *
Hypouricemic 1 *
Immunomodulator 6 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 7 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Immunosuppressant 2 *
Insecticide 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insectifuge 7 Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insectifuge? 1 Martindale's 28th
Insulinogenic 2 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
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 1 *
Irritant 8 Merck 11th Edition
Keratitigenic 1 *
Keratolytic 1 Martindale's 29th
Lachrymatory 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry