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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
HISTIDINE 7 Fruit 48.0 667.0 -0.73 *
INDOLE-ACETIC-ACID-OXIDASE 0 Fruit *
IODINE 12 Fruit 0.0 1.0 -0.29 *
IRON 6 Fruit 3.0 73.0 -0.24 *
ISOBUTANOL 0 Fruit *
ISOBUTYL-ACETATE 3 Fruit *
ISOBUTYL-FORMATE 0 Fruit *
ISOCAPRONIC-ACID 0 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ISOLEUCINE 3 Fruit 23.0 963.0 -0.80 *
ISOPROPYL-ISOBUTYRATE 0 Fruit *
KILOCALORIES 0 Fruit 460.0 3770.0 0.17 Wealth of India.
L-MALIC-ACID 0 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
LEUCINE 2 Fruit 24.0 1407.0 -0.79 *
LINALOOL 53 Fruit Wealth of India.
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Fruit 840.0 6222.0 -0.27 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LYSINE 4 Fruit 46.0 1852.0 -0.59 *
MAGNESIUM 65 Fruit 110.0 1075.0 -0.49 *
MALIC-ACID 15 Fruit 1000.0 4700.0 -0.65 *
MANGANESE 14 Fruit 12.0 209.0 0.97 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
METHANOL 2 Fruit *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticancer (Skin) 1 *
Anticanker 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticardiospasmic 1 *
Anticariogenic 2 Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract 7 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticellulitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticephalagic 5 *
Anticerebrotic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic 3 *
AntiCFS 2 *
Anticheilitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticholinesterase 1 Martindale's 29th
Antichoreic 2 Martindale's 29th
Anticlastogen 1 *
Anticlaudificant? 1 Martindale's 29th
Anticlimacteric 3 *