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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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| BORON | 4 | Fruit | not available | 0.2 | -0.80 | Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages.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 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiarrhythmic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiarteriosclerotic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiarthritic | 13 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiasthmatic | 4 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antiatherogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiatheromic | 1 | Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990. |
| Antiatherosclerotic | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antibackache | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antibacterial | 17 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiberiberi | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiBPH | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antibronchitic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Anticalculic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticancer | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticancer (Breast) | 1 | Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103. |
| Anticancer (Cervix) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticancer (Colon) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticancer (Forestomach) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticancer (Liver) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anticancer (Lung) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |