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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Cicer arietinum (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Chickpea; Garbanzo
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
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 0.0 -0.34 *
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 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 *
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 *
VIT-B65-6 0 Seed 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.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiendoccytotic 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Antiendometriotic 2 *
Antienterotic 1 *
Antiepileptic 5 *
Antiestrogenic 2 *
Antifatigue 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifeedant 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility 1 *
Antifibrinolytic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 1 *
Antifibrotic 2 *
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 1 *
Antigastritic 3 Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic 1 *
Antigingivitic 2 *
Antiglaucomic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antigranular 1 *
Antihangover 4 *