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
ETHYL-FORMATE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-ISOBUTYRATE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-ISOVALERATE	1	Fruit	not available	0.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-LACTATE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-PROPIONATE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Fruit	1000.0	42772.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Plant	200.0	760.0	0.30	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Fruit	3000.0	45000.0	-0.91	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Fruit	6000.0	23000.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
GABA	22	Fruit	not available	124.0	-0.83	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID	22	Fruit	not available	124.0	-0.73	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-BUTYROLACTONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CAPROLACTONE	0	Fruit	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-EUDESMOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
GAMMA-OCTALACTONE	0	Fruit	not available	0.3	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Fruit	10000.0	32000.0	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Fruit	90.0	3333.0	-0.77	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMINE	5	Fruit	not available	256.0	-1.30	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Fruit	65.0	1259.0	-0.91	Duke, 1992 *
HEXOSANS	0	Fruit	1000.0	1500.0	not available	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
Antiencephalitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiencephalopathic	7	Martindale's 29th
Antiencephalopathic?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiendotoxic	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Antienteritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiepileptic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiepisiotomic	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Antiescherichic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifeedant	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility	3	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	2	Duke, 1992 *