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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Arachis hypogaea (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Groundnut; Peanut
How this plant is used
Food
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
TRANS-10-OCTADECENOIC-ACID 0 Plant *
TRANS-3,5,4'-TRIHYDROXY-4-ISOPENTENYLSTILBENE 2 Sprout Seedling *
TRANS-RESVERATROL 5 Sprout Seedling *
TRIHYDROXYSTEARIC-ACID 0 Plant *
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Seed 2540.0 3321.0 0.00 *
TYROSINE 8 Seed 10630.0 13198.0 1.26 *
VALINE 3 Seed 10970.0 12437.0 0.05 *
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Seed 43.0 0.21 *
VIT-B-6 0 Seed 3.0 3.7 -0.46 *
WATER 0 Leaf 785000.0 -0.11 *
WATER 0 Plant 628000.0 842000.0 0.30 *
WATER 0 Seed 56000.0 422000.0 0.75 *
ZINC 77 Seed 31.0 35.0 -0.29 *
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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 *
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 *
Hepatotonic 1 Fitoterapia No.5-1986.
Hepatotoxic 2 *
Hepatotropic 2 *
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 *
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 *