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

Common Names

Pineapple

How this plant is used

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
2,5-DIMETHYL-4-HYDROXY-3(2H)-FURANONE	0	Plant	not available	1.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
5-STIGMASTENE-3-BETA-7-ALPHA-DIOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETALDEHYDE	6	Fruit	0.6	1.4	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
ACETIC-ACID	16	Fruit	not available	0.5	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
ACETONE	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETOXYACETONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACRYLIC-ACID	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ALANINE	3	Fruit	170.0	1259.0	-0.96	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID	15	Fruit	620.0	4592.0	0.93	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Fruit	1.0	7.0	-1.01	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
AMYL-CAPROATE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANANASIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANANASIC-ACID	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Fruit	46.0	1333.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Fruit	148.0	4178.0	-0.02	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	2800.0	36000.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGINE	2	Fruit	not available	1251.0	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Fruit	293.0	4222.0	-0.78	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Oxytocic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Parasiticide	1	Martindale's 29th
Percutaneostimulant	2	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	14	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Peristaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	26	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Pigment	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pituitary-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Poultice	1	Martindale's 29th
Preservative	2	Merck 11th Edition
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Proteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	2	Martindale's 29th
Refrigerant	1	Martindale's 28th