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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Apium graveolens (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Celery
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PENTENYLBENZENE 0 Seed Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
PENTOSANE 0 Root 1600.0 -1.00 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PENTYL-BENZENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 9000.0 *
PENTYL-BENZENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 2000.0 *
PENTYL-BENZENE 0 Seed 170.0 270.0 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
PENTYL-BENZENE 0 Seed Essent. Oil 200.0 9000.0 *
PERILLALDEHYDE 11 Seed 1.0 -0.90 *
PEROXIDASE 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Seed 2400.0 657000.0 0.50 *
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil *
PHELLOPTERIN 2 Leaf *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Leaf 190.0 4105.0 -1.59 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 979.0 4660.0 0.44 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Root 470.0 7900.0 0.77 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Seed 980.0 6843.0 0.39 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Pt 201.0 6849.0 1.36 *
PHTHALIDES 0 Plant *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Seed 600.0 -0.49 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Pt 60.0 1120.0 *
PINOCARVEOL 0 Seed Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Insulinotonic 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 3 *
Intoxicant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 36 *
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
Juvabional 6 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic 1 *
Keratolytic 1 Martindale's 29th
Larvicide 6 *
Larvistat 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 9 *
Laxative? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic 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
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 7 *
Lipotropic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 9 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.