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

Common Names

Sugar-Apple; Sweetsop

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
NITROSOCHLORIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NORCORYDINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NORISOCORYDINE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NORLAURELINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NORUSHINSUNINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ORNITHINE	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Fruit	2.0	8.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
PARAFFIN	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	260.0	1600.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	2200.0	13290.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Fruit	14000.0	86590.0	-0.31	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	1.0	5.0	0.00	Duke, 1992 *
ROEMERINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Fruit	50.0	457.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
SQUAMOCIN	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SQUAMOLONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE	14	Fruit	72900.0	272500.0	1.19	Duke, 1992 *
SUGAR	0	Fruit	145800.0	545000.0	2.42	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
Hypocholesterolemic	5	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic	5	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	9	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	3	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant	2	Rupprect, J. K., Hui, Y. H., and McLaughlin, J. L., Annonaceous acetogenins: a review, J. Nat. Prod, 53(2), 1990, 237-238.
Inhalant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insect-Repellent	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	5	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	6	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile	1	J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic	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
Insulinotonic	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Irritant	7	Duke, 1992 *