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Plant Arachis hypogaea (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Groundnut; Peanut
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Leaf 149000.0 693000.0 0.65 Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Plant 668000.0 717000.0 0.29 Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed 161800.0 377000.0 -0.58 Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE 1 Seed 20000.0 50000.0 -0.66 Duke, 1992 *
CEREBRONIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Seed not available 12.0 -0.62 Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTEROL 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE 20 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM 24 Seed not available 0.1 -0.67 Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOERIOL 7 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIS-10-OCTADECENOIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIS-11-OCTADECENOIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIS-3,5,4'-TRIHYDROXY-4-ISOPENTENYLSTILBENE 2 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIS-RESVERATROL 3 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COBALT 2 Seed 0.0 0.1 -0.20 Duke, 1992 *
CONARACHIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CONGLUTIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COPPER 12 Seed 8.6 11.0 -0.35 Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE 2 Seed 3290.0 3580.0 0.30 Duke, 1992 *
D,L-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemostat 3 Martindale's 29th
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective 12 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic 1 Fitoterapia No.5-1986.
Hepatotoxic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 1 Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990.
Hydrocholerectic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic 3 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypertensive 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hypnotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypoammonemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic 17 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic 9 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic 3 Duke, 1992 *