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Plant Cicer arietinum (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Chickpea; Garbanzo
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
PUFA 4 Seed 26940.0 30450.0 -0.57 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Seed 2.0 3.0 -0.20 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SALICYLATES 7 Seed not available 0.0 -0.34 Duke, 1992 *
SAPONINS 5 Seed 2300.0 60000.0 0.35 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
SERINE 1 Seed 9730.0 11000.0 0.08 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SFA 0 Seed 6260.0 7075.0 -0.51 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SODIUM 1 Seed 220.0 310.0 -0.22 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SOYASAPONIN-I 0 Seed not available not available not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 850.0 960.0 -0.54 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THIAMIN 31 Seed 4.0 6.0 -0.14 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THREONINE 4 Seed 7160.0 8090.0 -0.01 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Seed 1850.0 4970.0 0.56 Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE 8 Seed 4790.0 5415.0 -0.54 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VALINE 3 Seed 8090.0 10150.0 -0.23 Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B65-6 0 Seed not available not available not available USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
WATER 0 Seed 108220.0 122380.0 -0.40 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ZINC 77 Seed 33.0 50.0 0.14 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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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
Contraceptive 1 Martindale's 28th
Copper-Antagonist 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
Coronary-Dilator 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cosmetic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic 2 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Dermatitigenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic 6 Duke, 1992 *
DOPA-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Emetic 1 Martindale's 29th
ER-Beta-Binder 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Essential 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogen-Agonist 3 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 139.1999.
Estrogenic 5 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th