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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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
PROLINE 0 Fruit 2827.0 -0.32 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
PROLINE 0 Seed 11800.0 0.09 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
PRONEUROSPORIN 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 1000.0 100000.0 -0.13 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 198000.0 600000.0 3.26 *
PROTEIN-CVTI-I 0 Seed *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 2.0 8.0 0.64 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Seed 1.0 -0.97 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RUTIN 87 Seed 15000.0 16500.0 1.61 *
SERINE 1 Fruit 1885.0 -0.62 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
SERINE 1 Seed 13700.0 0.60 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
SODIUM 1 Fruit 135.0 236.0 -0.16 *
SPINASTEROL 0 Seed *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Cotyledon 59100.0 -0.59 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 12200.0 66000.0 0.87 *
STIGMAST-7-EN-3BETA-OL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
STIGMASTA-7,25-DIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Seed Oil *
STIGMASTA-7-22-25-TRIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Seed Oil *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Seed *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Seed Oil *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Uricosuric 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant 1 Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier 1 Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Vasodilator 8 *
Vasopressor 2 *
Vulnerary 5 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).