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Common Names
Groundnut; Peanut
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISOFERULIC-ACID | 4 | Seed | not available | 0.2 | -0.71 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOLEUCINE | 3 | Seed | 9200.0 | 10680.0 | 0.02 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOLINOLEIC-ACID | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOOLEIC-ACID | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOQUERCITRIN | 22 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| KILOCALORIES | 0 | Leaf | 690.0 | 3210.0 | 0.31 | Duke, 1992 * |
| KILOCALORIES | 0 | Seed | 3030.0 | 6074.0 | 0.95 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LAURIC-ACID | 7 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LEAD | 0 | Seed | not available | 0.1 | -0.69 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LECITHIN | 20 | Seed | 5000.0 | 7000.0 | -0.55 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LEUCINE | 2 | Seed | 16960.0 | 20653.0 | 0.34 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LEUCOCYANIDIN | 1 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LEUCODELPHINIDIN | 2 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LIGNOCERIC-ACID | 1 | Seed | 5409.0 | 5795.0 | 0.20 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LINOLEIC-ACID | 27 | Seed | 155300.0 | 183655.0 | 0.66 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LUETOLIN | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LYSINE | 4 | Seed | 9390.0 | 10627.0 | -0.20 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MAGNESIUM | 65 | Plant | 3500.0 | 8700.0 | 1.44 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MAGNESIUM | 65 | Seed | 1700.0 | 2110.0 | -0.33 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MALVALIC-ACID | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Emetic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Encephalopathic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Energizer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Ergogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Erythrocytogenic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Essential | 8 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Estrogenic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Estrogenic? | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Fibrinolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fistula-Preventive | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| FLavor | 6 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Fungicide | 17 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fungistat | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Gastroprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glutathione-Depleting | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glutathionigenic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Gonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Hematopoietic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |