Plant Annona muricata (Annonaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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
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 *