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
NONAN-1-OL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-1-OL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-2-ONE	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONAN-4-OLIDE	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-ACETYL-SERINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OBTUSIFOLIOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCT-1-EN-3-OL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCT-1-EN-3-ONE	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCT-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCT-TRANS-2-EN-1-OL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCT-TRANS-2-ENAL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-1-AL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-1-OL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Cotyledon	not available	241000.0	0.92	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	71000.0	189000.0	0.57	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
OXYSILVINE	0	Seed	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.
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Cotyledon	not available	206300.0	-1.73	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	15200.0	55000.0	0.44	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Fruit	not available	25.0	0.44	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
PECTIN	24	Fruit	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
Antibacterial	17	Duke, 1992 *
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibiotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Bladder)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	3	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Prostate)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinogenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	2	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	8	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.