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.
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
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BORON	4	Fruit	not available	0.2	-0.80	Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages.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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Urine-Acidifier	1	Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Varroacide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasoactive	1	Merck 11th Edition
Vasoconstrictor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	8	Duke, 1992 *
Vermifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Verrucolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	6	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.