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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 1300.0 46200.0 2.50 *
PROLINE 0 Fruit 590.0 -0.94 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 6000.0 70290.0 -0.53 *
PSI-CAROTENE 0 Plant *
QUERCETIN 176 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
QUINIC-ACID 1 Fruit *
RHOIFOLIN 2 Leaf CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 0.0 5.0 0.00 *
RUBIDIUM 0 Fruit 0.3 22.0 0.22 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
SABINENE 5 Leaf 45.0 -0.23 *
SABINENE 5 Pericarp 13.0 26.0 *
SALICYLATES 7 Fruit 0.0 70.0 -0.14 *
SCOPOLETIN 44 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SELENIUM 60 Fruit 0.0 0.0 -0.38 *
SERINE 1 Fruit 150.0 3100.0 -0.19 *
SESELIN 3 Root CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SESLIN 0 Root CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SESQUITERPENES 0 Pericarp 130.0 *
SILICON 4 Fruit 2.0 -0.60 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
SILVER 3 Fruit 0.0 0.1 -0.43 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antihyperkinetic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 9 *
Antihyperthyroid 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihypoglycemic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihypotensive 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiichythyotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiielus? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiimplantation 1 *
Antiimpotence 2 Martindale's 29th
Antiinfarctal 1 Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.
Antiinfective 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinfertility 4 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory 34 Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antiinsomniac 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiinsomniac? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiinsomnic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiischemic 1 *
Antikeratitic 1 *
Antikeshan 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.