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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
N-NONANAL	5	Seed	6.0	12.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
N-OCTANAL	2	Fruit	24.0	48.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTANAL	2	Seed	24.0	48.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NEODIHYDROCARVEOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEODIHYDROCARVEOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NEOISODIHYDROCARVEOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOISODIHYDROCARVEOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NIACIN	39	Fruit	21.0	56.0	-0.06	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	21.0	56.0	0.39	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
NICKEL	3	Fruit	not available	7.0	1.35	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Seed	7.0	10.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Fruit	54400.0	95648.0	0.26	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	29000.0	241000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
P-1(7),8-MENTHADIENE-6-OL	0	Seed	10.0	25.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Seed	not available	86.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Seed	0.1	1320.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
P-MENTHA-2,8-DIEN-1-OL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	2000.0	6658.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	2000.0	9000.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Fruit	900.0	999.0	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Hypertensive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypertrichotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypnotic	3	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Hypoammonemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic	14	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Hypocholesterolemic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic	8	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	15	Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	6	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	6	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Immunosuppressant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Inflammatory	2	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	9	Duke, 1992 *