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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
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
Cardioprotective 10 *
Cardiotonic 1 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Cardiotoxic 1 *
Cardiovascular 1 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Carminative 1 *
Caspase-3-Inducer 1 *
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 *
Catabolic 3 Abstract (See species file)
cGMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Chemopreventive 9 *
Cholagogue 3 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic 13 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Cholesterolytic 1 *
Cholinergic 1 *
Cicatrizant 1 *
Circulotonic 2 *
Clastogenic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Active 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
CNS-Depressant 3 Facciola, S. 1998. Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. Kampong Publications, Vista CA. 713 pp.
CNS-Paralytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.