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
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 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).
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	5	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.
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	6	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticatarrh	1	Martindale's 29th
Anticephalagic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticervicaldysplasic	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	2	Duke, 1992 *
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.
Anticholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticholinesterase	2	L. Gracza (1985) as cited by Buchbauer re antiacetylcholinesterase.