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

Common Names

Groundnut; Peanut

How this plant is used

Food

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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
PHENYLALANINE	7	Seed	13560.0	15715.0	0.50	Duke, 1992 *
PHLORETIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHOLIPASE-D	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORIC-ACID-MONOESTERHYDROLASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	820.0	3814.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	800.0	10000.0	3.08	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	2450.0	4248.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
PHYSETOLEIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	9100.0	17500.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Seed	4210.0	7681.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
PRATENSIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Seed	11540.0	15362.0	0.79	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	44000.0	205000.0	-0.07	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Plant	164000.0	262000.0	0.73	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	150000.0	275000.0	0.37	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID	43	Seed	not available	4.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PUFA	4	Seed	155340.0	183785.0	0.59	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Leaf	5.8	27.0	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Seed	1.3	3.1	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Antiencephalopathic	7	Martindale's 29th
Antiencephalopathic?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiepileptic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antierythemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	3	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifeedant	7	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric	1	Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic	3	Martindale's 29th