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BORON	4	Fruit	not available	0.2	-0.80	Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages.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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antihepatotoxic	7	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihiccup	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihistaminic	5	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antihomocystinuric	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihyperactivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperammonemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperkeratotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkinetic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperthyroid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihypoglycemic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiichythyotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiielus?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiimpotence	2	Martindale's 29th
Antiinfarctal	1	Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.