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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Carica papaya (Caricaceae)

Common Names
Papaya
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
BENZYL-GLUCOSINOLATE 0 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
BENZYL-GLUCOSINOLATE 0 Latex Exudate 116000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
BENZYL-ISOTHIOCYANATE 20 Fruit 0.0 291.0 *
BENZYL-ISOTHIOCYANATE 20 Seed 2000.0 5000.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
BENZYLSENEVOL 0 Seed *
BETA-BETA-CAROTENE 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-BETA-CAROTENE-3-DIOL 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Leaf 116.0 514.0 1.10 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-CAROTENE-5,6-EPOXIDE 0 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
BETA-CRYPTOXANTHIN-PALMITATE 0 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
BETA-EPSILON-CAROTENE 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Fruit *
BETA-PSEUDOCAROTENE 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 6 *
Acaricide 3 *
Acarifuge 1 *
ACE-Inhibitor 4 *
Acetylcholinergic 1 *
Acidifier 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Acidulant 2 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Addictive 1 *
Additive 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aggregant 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Albuminurigenic 1 Commission E. Blumenthal,M.,Hall,T. and Rister,R.S. eds.1997.The ABC's German Commission E Monographs - Therapeutic Monographs on Medicinal Plants for Human Use by Commission E - A Special Expert Committee of the German Federal Health Agency.ABC.Austin TX
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 7 *
Allelochemic 1 *
Allergenic 16 Mitchell, J. and Rook, A.J. 1923. Botanical Dermatology: plants and plant products injurious to the skin. Vancouver: Greengrass, 1979. xiii, 787 p.: ill.
Alpha-Amylase-Inhibitor 1 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Amebicide 1 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Amphiglycemic? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analgesic 12 *
Anaphrodisiac 1 *