Plant Carum carvi (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Caraway; Carum; Kummel (Ger.); Comino (Sp.); Comino de prado (Sp.)

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
ZINC	77	Fruit	47.0	61.0	0.92	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Seed	47.0	66.0	0.59	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Emollient	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Epileptigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	8	Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Ferulosys-genic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
FLavor	32	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	30	Duke, 1992 *
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	3	Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *