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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Citrus paradisi (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Grapefruit
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
P-MENTH-1-ENE-8-THIOL 0 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Fruit 120.0 1320.0 -0.34 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Fruit 10.0 110.0 -0.33 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Plant 3.0 31.0 0.07 *
PARADISIOL 0 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PECTIN 24 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PENTAN-1-OL 0 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PERILLALDEHYDE 11 Pericarp Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
PERILLYL-ACETATE 0 Pericarp Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
PHENYLALANINE 7 Fruit *
PHLORIN 0 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PHLOROGLUCINOL 8 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 76.0 5280.0 0.63 *
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Fruit 0.0 -0.23 *
PHYTOENE 0 Fruit *
PHYTOFLUENE 0 Fruit *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Fruit 170.0 -1.00 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
POLYGALACTURONIC-ACID 0 Fruit *
PONCIRIN 0 Fruit *
PONCITRIN 0 Root CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
(+)-Inotropic 1 Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
11B-HSD-Inhibitor 3 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 6 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 5 *
Abortifacient 1 *
Acaricide 6 *
Acarifuge 1 *
ACE-Inhibitor 5 *
Acetylcholinergic 1 *
AChE-Inhibitor 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Acidulant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Adenosine-Antagonist 1 McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Adjuvant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Adrenergic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Aggregant 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 17 *
Allelochemic 7 *
Allelopathic 5 Holappa, L.D., and Blum*, U. 1991. Effects of Exogenously Applied Ferulic Acid, a Potential Allelopathic Compound, on Leaf Growth, Water Utilization, and Endogenous Abscisic Acid Levels of Tomato, Cucumber, and Bean. J. of Chemical Ecology, 17(5): 865.
Allergenic 17 *