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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
GLUCOSE 7 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
GLUCOSE 7 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
GLUCOTROPAEOLIN 0 Plant *
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Fruit USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLYCINE 12 Fruit 180.0 1611.0 -0.77 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
HEPTAN-2-ONE 0 Fruit *
HEPTANAL 0 Fruit *
HEX-2-ENOIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit 0.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
HEXADECENOIC-ACID 0 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
HEXADECENOIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil 8000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
HEXANAL 5 Fruit *
HEXANOIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit 0.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
HEXYL-ACETATE 1 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
HEXYL-ALCOHOL 0 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
HISTIDINE 7 Fruit 50.0 448.0 -0.89 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
IRON 6 Fruit 0.4 3.0 -0.52 *
IRON 6 Leaf 8.0 38.0 -0.82 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ISOAMYL-ACETATE 2 Fruit *
ISOBUTYL-ACETATE 3 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOBUTYL-ALCOHOL 2 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
AntiAGE 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 6 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Antiaging 4 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antialdosteronic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialkalotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiallergic 5 *
Antialopecic 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran 6 *
Antiamblyopic 1 *
Antianaphylactic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic 4 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic 3 Martindale's 29th
Antianginal 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiangiogenic 2 *
Antianorectic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.