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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Averrhoa carambola (Oxalidaceae)

Common Names
Carambola; Star Fruit
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
OXALIC-ACID 9 Fruit 50000.0 95800.0 4.98 Morton, J.F., Major Medicinal Plants. 1977. Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America. Bahamas to Yucatan. 1981.
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Plant *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Fruit 190.0 2090.0 -0.43 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 140.0 2100.0 -0.34 *
PHYTOFLUENE 0 Fruit 0.3 37.0 1.00 *
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 1400.0 23500.0 0.49 *
PROLINE 0 Fruit 260.0 2860.0 -0.31 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 3000.0 73000.0 -0.49 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 0.2 5.2 0.04 *
SERINE 1 Fruit 430.0 4735.0 0.39 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SINAPIC-ACID 9 Plant *
SODIUM 1 Fruit 17.0 351.0 -0.15 *
SUCCINIC-ACID 7 Fruit 2200.0 1.00 Morton, J.F., Major Medicinal Plants. 1977. Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America. Bahamas to Yucatan. 1981.
SULFUR 14 Fruit 1000.0 1300.0 -0.08 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Fruit 9100.0 43700.0 0.12 Morton, J.F., Major Medicinal Plants. 1977. Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America. Bahamas to Yucatan. 1981.
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.2 6.6 0.16 *
THREONINE 4 Fruit 230.0 2530.0 -0.20 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Fruit 40.0 440.0 -0.58 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TYROSINE 8 Fruit 230.0 2530.0 0.05 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VALINE 3 Fruit 260.0 2860.0 -0.33 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Bacteristat 1 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker 1 *
Beta-Blocker 2 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Bruchiphobe 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist 2 *
Calcium-Channel-Blocker 1 *
Cancer-Preventive 13 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 1 Martindale's 28th
Carcinogenic 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Cardioprotective 6 *
Cardiotoxic 1 *
Chemopreventive 2 *
Choleretic 1 *
Circulotonic 1 *
CNS-Depressant 1 Facciola, S. 1998. Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. Kampong Publications, Vista CA. 713 pp.
CNS-Paralytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cold-preventive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Collagenic 2 *
Colorant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.