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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Carum carvi (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Caraway; Carum; Kummel (Ger.); Comino (Sp.); Comino de prado (Sp.)
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
BETA-MYRCENE 2 Seed *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Seed Wealth of India.
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit 270.0 600.0 -0.28 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Plant 20.0 -0.41 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-PINENE 13 Seed 40.0 600.0 -0.62 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Root *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed 420.0 -0.47 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CADINENE 4 Plant 3720.0 29760.0 1.41 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Seed 2840.0 1.94 *
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 6426.0 8160.0 0.99 *
CALCIUM 28 Seed 1530.0 8160.0 0.74 *
CALCIUM-OXALATE 4 Fruit *
CALCIUM-OXALATE 4 Seed Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
CAMPESTEROL 2 Seed 30.0 -0.56 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPHENE 9 Fruit 1.0 900.0 0.02 *
CAMPHENE 9 Plant 30.0 -0.55 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CAMPHENE 9 Seed 1.0 900.0 1.52 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CAPRIC-ACID 3 Fruit 100.0 110.0 -0.68 *
CAPRIC-ACID 3 Seed 100.0 110.0 -0.52 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 499000.0 554000.0 -1.22 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiadrenalinic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiadrenergic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiaflatoxin 5 *
AntiAGE 1 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 8 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Antiaging 5 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 4 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
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 8 J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic 5 Martindale's 28th
Antialzheimeran 4 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antialzheimeran? 3 L. Gracza (1985) as cited by Buchbauer re antiacetylcholinesterase.
Antiamblyopic 1 *
Antianaphylactic 3 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 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.