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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
SUCROSE 14 Plant *
SUCROSE 14 Shoot *
SUGARS 0 Fruit 14700.0 70000.0 -0.60 *
SUGARS 0 Seed 14700.0 70000.0 0.38 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SULFUR 14 Root 100.0 1000.0 -0.51 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Root *
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Pt *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Leaf Essent. Oil 1000.0 -0.54 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Seed 1.0 1400.0 0.07 *
TERPINENE 0 Seed Essent. Oil *
TERPINEOL-ACETATE 2 Shoot *
TERPINEOL-PROPIONATE 0 Shoot *
TERPINEOLENE 0 Root Essent. Oil 33000.0 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Fruit Essent. Oil 2000.0 -0.69 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil 2000.0 -0.59 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Root Essent. Oil 33000.0 -0.68 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Seed Essent. Oil 2000.0 -0.62 *
TETRAHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Seed Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
THIAMIN 31 Pt 0.0 10.0 1.26 *
THIAMINE 0 Fruit 0.3 1.2 -1.08 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Succinoxidase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sunscreen 6 *
Suppository 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sweetener 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Synergist 1 Merck 11th Edition
Tachycardic 1 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Teratogenic 2 *
Teratologic 2 *
Termiticide 4 *
Termitifuge 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 5 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 4 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 6 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Tracheorelaxant 2 *
Tranquilizer 8 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 6 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Tremorigenic 2 Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide 8 Martindale's 29th