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
GERANIOL	35	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETONE	2	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLOBULIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Fruit	not available	7420.0	-0.45	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Seed	not available	53000.0	0.48	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
GLUTELIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
GLYCINE	12	Fruit	not available	1178.0	-0.94	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
GRAMISTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HENTRIACONTANE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPT-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPT-TRANS-2-ENAL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTA-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTAN-2-ONE	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-EN-1-OL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-TRANS-2-ENAL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-TRANS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAN-1-AL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAN-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
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	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	5	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).