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Plant Annona muricata (Annonaceae)

Common Names
Soursop
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 2550.0 36000.0 1.60 Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM-CHLORIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN 11 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 10000.0 60000.0 -0.66 Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed not available 214300.0 -0.17 Duke, 1992 *
RESIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RETICULINE 10 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 0.5 6.0 0.21 Duke, 1992 *
SCYLLITOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SFA 0 Seed not available 62000.0 0.03 Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM 1 Fruit 65.0 1035.0 -0.09 Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STEPHARINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE 14 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR 14 Fruit 210.0 2700.0 0.89 Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.7 4.8 -0.07 Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Fruit 110.0 585.0 -0.37 Duke, 1992 *
UFA 0 Seed not available 159000.0 1.17 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antiseborrheic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic 8 Martindale's 28th
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antispare-Tire 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antispasmodic 7 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 73.
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiSpina-Bifida 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistaphylococcic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antistomatitic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistress 5 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antisunburn 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antisyndrome-X 4 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antithiamin 1 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithyroid 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitinnitic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antitriglyceride 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antitubercular 2 Duke, 1992 *