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
Ovulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Parasiticide	1	Martindale's 29th
Perfumery	3	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	15	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Preservative	1	Merck 11th Edition
Prolactinogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Prooxidant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Pyrogenic	1	Dasgupta, S., Ray, A. B., Bhattacharya, S. K., Bose, R. 1979. Constituents of Pachygone ovata and Pharmacological Action of its Major Leaf Alkaloid. J Nat Prod, 42(4): 399-406.
Refrigerant	1	Martindale's 28th
Respiraparalytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Respirastimulant	2	Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp.
Rodenticide	1	Martindale's 29th
Rubefacient	1	Martindale's 29th
Scabicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Schizophrenigenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.