Plant Canavalia ensiformis (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Jack Bean

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
COPPER	12	Seed	7.0	8.0	-0.62	Duke, 1992 *
DESAMINOCANAVANINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Fruit	2000.0	26000.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	23000.0	36000.0	-1.21	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Fruit	18000.0	481000.0	3.20	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Seed	49000.0	99000.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
GENISTEIN	81	Leaf Diffusate	not available	6.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXYGENISTEIN	0	Leaf Diffusate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Fruit	12.0	175.0	0.17	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Seed	12.0	97.0	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES	0	Fruit	340.0	3810.0	0.23	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES	0	Seed	3310.0	3920.0	-0.73	Duke, 1992 *
KITOGINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-(-)-HOMOSERINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-ALPHA-AMINO-DELTA-HYDROXYVALERIANIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	not available	2190.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Seed	not available	11.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Fruit	20.0	93.0	0.43	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	18.0	35.0	-0.24	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
Mutagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
NADH-Ubiquinone-Oxidoreductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Natriuretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neuroinhibitor	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Neuroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotransmitter	1	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Osmoregulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Oxidant	1	Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Peroxidase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pesticide	9	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phytoalexin	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Pituitary-sensitizer	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)