Plant Cichorium endivia (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Endive; Escarole

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
SELENIUM	60	Leaf	0.0	0.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
SERINE	1	Leaf	490.0	7890.0	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
SFA	0	Leaf	480.0	7729.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
SILVER	3	Leaf	0.2	0.2	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Leaf	179.0	4560.0	0.16	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Leaf	20.0	322.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
STRONTIUM	0	Shoot	140.0	240.0	-0.76	Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR	14	Shoot	740.0	912.0	-0.68	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXASTEROL	2	Latex Exudate	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Leaf	0.7	14.0	1.19	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Leaf	500.0	8051.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM	0	Leaf	1.0	1.2	-0.69	Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Leaf	50.0	805.0	-2.26	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Leaf	400.0	6441.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Leaf	630.0	10145.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Leaf	0.2	3.2	-1.16	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Leaf	934000.0	943800.0	0.68	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Leaf	8.0	146.0	0.37	Duke, 1992 *
ZIRCONIUM	0	Leaf	4.0	4.8	-0.53	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
Antitriglyceride	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antitrypanosomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	5	Simon, P.W. Carrots and Other Horticultural Crops as a Source of Provitamin A Carotenes. HortScience, 25(12): 1495, 1990.
Antitumor (Bladder)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (brain)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Breast)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (CNS)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Esophagus)?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Ovary)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	2	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antiulcer	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiuremic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.