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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Citrullus lanatus (Cucurbitaceae)

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
25(27)-DEHYDRO-CHONDRILLASTEROL 0 Seed *
25(27)-DEHYDRO-FUNGISTEROL 0 Seed *
25(27)-DEHYDRO-PORIFERASTEROL 0 Seed *
3-METHYL-BUTAN-1-OL 0 Fruit Juice *
4-OXO-NONAN-1-AL 0 Fruit Juice *
6-METHYL-HEPT-5-EN-2-ONE 0 Fruit Juice *
7-DEHYDRO-AVENASTEROL 0 Seed Oil *
ACETOPHENONE 6 Fruit Juice *
ALANINE 3 Fruit 2000.0 -0.67 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ALANINE 3 Seed 15000.0 1.03 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ALLANTOIN 12 Seed 450.0 1.00 *
ALPHA-AMINO-BETA-(1-IMIDAZOYL)-PROPIONIC-ACID 0 Plant *
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL 2 Seed Oil *
AMINO-ACIDS 0 Seed *
ARGININE 14 Fruit 6949.0 0.70 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ARGININE 14 Seed 46600.0 0.93 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 94.0 -0.28 *
ASH 0 Fruit 30600.0 -0.67 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ASH 0 Seed 62000.0 0.42 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Fruit 4594.0 -0.73 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diuretic 8 *
DNA-Active 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective 1 *
Embryotoxic 1 *
Emetic 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-97.
Enterocontractant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Ergogenic 1 *
Essential 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 4 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 3 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor 9 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 11 Tomas-Barberan, F., Iniesta-Sanmartin, E., Tomas-Lorente, F., and Rumbero, A. 1989. Antimicrobial Phenolic Compounds From Three Spanish Helichrysum Species. Phytochemistry. 29(4): 1093-1095. 1990.
Gastroprotective 1 *
Glutathionergic 1 *
Glutathionigenic 2 Martindale's 29th