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Common Names
Watermelon
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PROLINE | 0 | Fruit | not available | 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 | not available | 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 | 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. |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Fruit | 1000.0 | 100000.0 | -0.13 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Seed | 198000.0 | 600000.0 | 3.26 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROTEIN-CVTI-I | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| RIBOFLAVIN | 15 | Fruit | 2.0 | 8.0 | 0.64 | Duke, 1992 * |
| RIBOFLAVIN | 15 | Seed | not available | 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SERINE | 1 | Fruit | not available | 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 | not available | 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SPINASTEROL | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Cotyledon | not available | 59100.0 | -0.59 | Duke, 1992 * |
| STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Seed | 12200.0 | 66000.0 | 0.87 | Duke, 1992 * |
| STIGMAST-7-EN-3BETA-OL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
| STIGMASTA-7,25-DIEN-3-BETA-OL | 0 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STIGMASTA-7-22-25-TRIEN-3-BETA-OL | 0 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STIGMASTEROL | 12 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STIGMASTEROL | 12 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antifuruncular | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antigallstone | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigastritic | 4 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antigastrotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigibberellin | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antigingivitic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiglaucomic | 3 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antiglossitic | 3 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antigonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antigonadotropic | 1 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Antigout | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigranular | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihangover | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiheartburn | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihematuric | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihemolytic | 1 | Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994. |
| Antihemorrhagic | 2 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antihemorrhoidal | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihepatitic | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antihepatoadenomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |