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Plant Annona muricata (Annonaceae)

Common Names
Soursop
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
KILOCALORIES 0 Fruit 590.0 3550.0 -0.17 Duke, 1992 *
LIGNOCERIC-ACID 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE 4 Fruit 600.0 3180.0 -0.24 Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM 65 Fruit 210.0 2400.0 0.13 Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID 15 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE 14 Fruit not available 2.7 -0.39 Duke, 1992 *
MERICYL-ALCOHOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
METHANOL 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE 15 Fruit 70.0 370.0 -0.72 Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-HEX-2-ENOATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-HEXANOATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MURICINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MURICININE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN 39 Fruit 9.0 77.0 0.22 Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN 0 Fruit not available 2700.0 -0.84 Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Fruit 2.5 13.0 -0.33 Duke, 1992 *
PARAFFIN 4 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 210.0 3400.0 0.06 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
Antitumor 7 Simon, P.W. Carrots and Other Horticultural Crops as a Source of Provitamin A Carotenes. HortScience, 25(12): 1495, 1990.
Antitumor (Breast) 2 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Antitumor (Cervix) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (CNS) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Gastric) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung) 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter 2 Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiulcer 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antivaccinia 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaginitic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antivaricose 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivertigo 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral 6 Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral? 1 Martindale's 29th