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
N-PENTADECANE	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOLYCOPENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
NERAL	4	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEUROSPORIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
NIACIN	39	Fruit	15.0	27.0	-0.45	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NON-CIS-3-EN-1-AL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NON-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NON-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NON-CIS-6-EN-1-OL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NON-CIS-6-EN-1-OL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NON-TRANS-2-EN-1-OL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NON-TRANS-2-EN-AL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONA-CIS-3,6-CIS-DIEN-1-AL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONA-CIS-3,CIS-6-DIEN-1-OL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONA-CIS-3-CIS-6-DIEN-10-OL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONA-TRANS-2,CIS-6-DIEN-1-AL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONA-TRANS-2,CIS-6-DIEN-1-OL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONA-TRANS-2-CIS-6-DIENAL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-1-AL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-1-AL	0	Fruit Juice	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