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
CITRIC-ACID	23	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRULLINE	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CORYDINE	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEMETHYLCOCLAURINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIENONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FARNESENE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Fruit	2000.0	21000.0	-0.48	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	140000.0	490000.0	1.18	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Fruit	12000.0	71000.0	-0.67	Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDELIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GABA	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLAUCINE	10	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Fruit	72900.0	272500.0	2.00	Duke, 1992 *
HCN	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXADECANOIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAHYDRO-3H-1,3-DIAZEPINE-2,4-DIONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HIGENAMINE	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Fruit	6.0	66.0	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCORYDINE	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	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
Juvabional	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide	5	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative	5	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Lipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipotropic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lithogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic	2	Martindale's 29th
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Monoamine-Precursor	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mucogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mucolytic	1	Martindale's 28th
Mycobactericide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Mycoplasmicide	1	Collins, D.J., Culvenor, C.C.J., Lamberton, J.A., Loder, J.W. and Price, J.R., Plants for Medicines, CSIRO, East Melbourne, Australia, 1990, 303 pp.
Myorelaxant	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Narcotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	8	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses