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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Artocarpus altilis (Moraceae)

Common Names
Breadfruit
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
ALANINE 3 Seed 3360.0 7685.0 -0.53 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-AMYRIN 10 Fruit Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ARGININE 14 Seed 4940.0 11300.0 -0.56 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ARTOCARPIN 2 Fruit *
ARTOCARPINE 0 Fruit Morton, J.F., Major Medicinal Plants. 1977. Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America. Bahamas to Yucatan. 1981.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 150.0 985.0 -0.22 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Seed 65.0 275.0 -0.17 *
ASH 0 Fruit 5600.0 33400.0 -0.60 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASH 0 Seed 15000.0 85850.0 1.14 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Seed 8170.0 18685.0 -0.35 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit 0.0 0.1 -0.15 Morton, J.F., Major Medicinal Plants. 1977. Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America. Bahamas to Yucatan. 1981.
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Seed 3.0 6.0 -0.05 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BORON 4 Fruit 5.2 23.0 -0.34 *
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 170.0 1950.0 -0.44 *
CALCIUM 28 Seed 110.0 825.0 -0.61 *
CAMPHOROL 0 Leaf *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 179200.0 922450.0 0.75 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed 159000.0 677000.0 0.61 Morton, J.F., Major Medicinal Plants. 1977. Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America. Bahamas to Yucatan. 1981.
CEROTIC-ACJD 0 Latex Exudate *
COPPER 12 Fruit 0.8 7.5 -0.41 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hypoglycemic 5 *
Hypolipidemic 1 *
Hypotensive 7 *
Hypouricemic 1 *
Immunomodulator 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant 1 Martindale's 29th
iNOS-Inhibitor 1 *
Inotropic 1 *
Insecticide 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge 4 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Insulinotonic 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Irritant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Juvabional 1 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Keratolytic 1 Martindale's 29th
Larvistat 1 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.