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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant 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
11-EICOSENOIC-ACID 0 Plant *
13-EICOSENOIC-ACID 0 Plant *
13-HYDROPEROXY-CIS-9,TRANS-11-OCTADECADIENOIC-ACID 0 Plant *
13-HYDROPEROXY-TRANS-9,TRANS-11-OCTADECADIENOIC-ACID 0 Plant *
15-DOCOSENOIC-ACID 0 Plant *
2,4-METHYLENE-CHOLESTEROL 0 Plant *
4-METHYLENEPROLINE 0 Seed *
5,7-DIHYDROXYCHROMONE 4 Plant *
7-HEXADECENOIC-ACID 0 Plant *
9,10-DIHYDROXYSTEARIC-ACID 0 Plant *
ALANINE 3 Seed 10390.0 12137.0 0.42 *
ALPHA-AMINO-BETA-HYDROXYBUTYRIC-ACID 0 Plant *
ALPHA-CEPHALIN 0 Seed *
ALPHA-KETO-GLUTARIC-ACID 0 Seed *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID 15 Seed 30.0 110.0 -0.33 *
ALPHA-RESORCYLIC-ACID 0 Plant *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Oil 89.0 -0.57 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Seed 83.0 116.0 -0.36 *
ALUMINUM 5 Seed 14.0 -0.34 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID 0 Seed 11803.0 12644.0 0.58 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiataxic 1 (View) Martindale's 28th
Antiatherogenic 2 (View) *
Antiatherosclerotic 10 (View) *
Antibackache 1 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial 19 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiberiberi 1 (View) *
AntiBPH 1 (View) *
Anticancer 7 (View) *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 (View) Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Colon) 2 (View) *
Anticancer (Forestomach) 2 (View) *
Anticancer (Liver) 2 (View) *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Skin) 2 (View) *
Anticanker 3 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility 2 (View) Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 3 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 1 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 (View) Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)