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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
PROPYL-ACETATE 0 Fruit *
PROPYL-FORMATE 0 Fruit *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 4000.0 55000.0 -0.73 *
PUFA 4 Fruit 1460.0 10815.0 -0.07 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 0.0 3.0 -0.43 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SALICYLATES 7 Fruit 10.0 150.0 0.09 *
SERINE 1 Fruit 250.0 1852.0 -0.63 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SEROTONIN 26 Fruit 19.0 60.0 0.92 *
SFA 0 Fruit 320.0 2370.0 -0.33 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SILICON 4 Fruit 110.0 690.0 1.63 *
SINAPIC-ACID 9 Fruit Wealth of India.
SODIUM 1 Fruit 10.0 347.0 -0.15 *
STARCH 5 Fruit 19.0 -0.46 *
STARCH 5 Leaf 30000.0 -0.15 Wealth of India.
STARCH 5 Stem 100000.0 150000.0 1.00 Wealth of India.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit 110.0 815.0 -0.23 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STIGMAST-5-ENE-3-BETA-7-ALPHA-DIOL 1 Plant *
STIGMASTANOL 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
STIGMASTEROL 12 Fruit 0.0 -1.17 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
SUBAPHYLLIN 3 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antidote 1 Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Acetaminophen) 1 Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Aluminum) 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antidote (Cadmium) 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Hypoglycin-A) 1 Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Iodine) 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidote (Lead) 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Manganese) 1 Martindale's 28th
Antidote (Paracetamol) 1 Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Paraquat) 1 Martindale's 28th
Antidrepanocytic 1 *
Antidysgeuzic 1 *
Antidyskinetic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antidysmenorrheic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antidyspeptic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antidysphagic 1 *
Antiecchymotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antieczemic 5 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiedemic 6 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antielastase 1 *