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

Common Names

Watermelon

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
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BORON	4	Fruit	1.0	4.0	-0.72	Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages.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 *

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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
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	8	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-97.
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
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.
Estrogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	2	Martindale's 29th