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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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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticancer (Cervix) 2 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *
Anticancer (Prostate) 1 *
Anticanker 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticardiospasmic 1 *
Anticariogenic 2 Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticariogenic? 1 Martindale's 28th
Anticarpal-Tunnel 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract 8 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic 3 *
AntiCFS 3 *
Anticheilitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antichoreic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticirrhotic 2 *
Anticlaudificant? 1 Martindale's 29th
Anticlimacteric 4 *