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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID 15 Fruit 250.0 2238.0 -0.14 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Fruit *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Fruit *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
AMYL-ACETATE 0 Fruit *
ANTHERAXANTHIN 1 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ARACHIDIC-ACID 0 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
ARACHIDIC-ACID 0 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
ARACHIDIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil 5000.0 10000.0 0.12 Jim Duke's personal files.
ARGININE 14 Fruit 100.0 895.0 -0.91 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 640.0 4741.0 0.01 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf 1400.0 6222.0 0.13 *
ASH 0 Fruit 2970.0 22000.0 -0.90 *
ASH 0 Leaf 22000.0 154000.0 0.62 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ASH 0 Seed 88000.0 1.21 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Fruit 490.0 4387.0 -0.76 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
BEHENIC-ACID 1 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BEHENIC-ACID 1 Seed Oil 16000.0 0.30 Jim Duke's personal files.
BENZALDEHYDE 24 Fruit 300.0 -0.06 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL 9 Fruit 0.0 -0.72 Jim Duke's personal files.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antihepatocarcinogenic 1 Akao, M. and Kuroda, K. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Fumaric Acid on Hepatocarcinogenesis by Thioacetamide in Mice. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(7): 2012-2014, 1990.
Antihepatotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic 4 *
Antiherpetic? 1 *
Antihiccup 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihistaminic 5 *
AntiHIV 4 *
Antihomocysteine 1 *
Antihyperactivity 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperammonemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperkeratotic 1 *
Antihyperkinetic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 8 *
Antihyperthyroid 1 *
Antihypoglycemic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiichythyotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiielus? 1 Martindale's 29th