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Common Names
Soursop
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHOLESTEROL | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CITRIC-ACID | 23 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CITRULLINE | 5 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| COCLAURINE | 6 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| COPPER | 12 | Fruit | not available | 1.6 | -0.87 | Duke, 1992 * |
| COREXIMINE | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DEXTROSE | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ETHANOL | 24 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FAT | 0 | Fruit | 2000.0 | 24000.0 | -0.46 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FAT | 0 | Seed | not available | 221000.0 | -0.23 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FIBER | 15 | Fruit | 6000.0 | 65000.0 | -0.72 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FOLACIN | 15 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FRUCTOSE | 8 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GABA | 22 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GALACTOMANNAN | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GERANYL-CAPROATE | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GLUCOSE | 7 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| HCN | 9 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| IRON | 6 | Fruit | 5.0 | 33.0 | -0.40 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOCITRIC-ACID | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Emollient | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Encephalopathic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Ergogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Essential | 3 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Estrogenic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Expectorant | 1 | Schulz, V, Hansel, R and Tyler, VE. 1998. Rational Phytotherapy - A Physician's Guide to Herbal Medicine. 3rd ed. 1st English Edition. Translated by Terry C. Telger. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. 306 pp. |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Fibrinolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fistula-Preventive | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Flatugenic | 1 | Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994. |
| FLavor | 4 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Fungicide | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gastroprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glutathionigenic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Gonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Hematopoietic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Hemopoietic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hemostat | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatocarcinogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |