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Common Names
Watermelon
How this plant is used
Food
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASPARTIC-ACID | 3 | Seed | not available | 25500.0 | 0.26 | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| AVENASTEROL | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BENZALDEHYDE | 24 | Fruit Juice | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BENZYL-ALCOHOL | 9 | Fruit Juice | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-CAROTENE | 53 | Fruit | 2.0 | 48.0 | -0.06 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-IONONE | 13 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-IONONE | 13 | Fruit Juice | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-IONONE-EPOXIDE | 0 | Fruit Juice | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Fruit | not available | 10.0 | -0.78 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| BORON | 4 | Fruit | 1.0 | 4.0 | -0.72 | Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron). |
| BRYONOLIC-ACID | 3 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BRYONOLIC-ACID | 3 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BUTAN-1-OL | 0 | Fruit Juice | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BUTAN-4-OLIDE | 0 | Fruit Juice | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAFFEIC-ACID | 102 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Fruit | 100.0 | 3400.0 | -0.11 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Seed | 1294.0 | 1300.0 | -0.52 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPESTEROL | 2 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| CAMPESTEROL | 2 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPESTEROL | 2 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antithrombogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antithyroid | 2 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Antitic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antitinnitic | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antitriglyceride | 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 |
| Antitrypanosomic | 1 | Planta Medica, 57: A44, 1991. |
| Antitubercular | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor | 11 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor (Bladder) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor (Breast) | 4 | Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103. |
| Antitumor (Cervix) | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor (CNS) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor (Colon) | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor (Gastric) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor (Lung) | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor (Pancreas) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor (Prostate) | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor (Skin) | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor (Stomach) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor-Promoter | 2 | Cancer Research, 48: 5941. |