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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
NOMILINIC-ACID 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
NOMILINIC-ACID-17-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Seed CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NONANAL 0 Pericarp 3.0 *
NONANOL 0 Pericarp 0.7 *
NOOTKATONE 3 Pericarp 27.0 *
OBACUNONE 3 Seed CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
OCTANOL 0 Pericarp 11.0 *
OCTOPAMINE 0 Hull Husk *
OCTOPAMINE 0 Plant 0.0 *
OCTYL-ALDEHYDE 0 Fruit Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
OCTYLIC-ACID 0 Fruit Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Fruit 120.0 1320.0 -0.47 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
OSTHOL 15 Root CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
OSTHOLE 4 Root *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Plant *
P-CAFFEIC-ACID 0 Pericarp 5.0 12.0 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Fruit 0.0 53.0 -0.49 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Pericarp 5.0 25.0 -1.00 *
P-CYMENE 16 Leaf 385.0 -0.08 *
P-CYMENE 16 Pericarp *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor 2 *
Cytoprotective 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Decalcifier 1 Merck 11th Edition
Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Deliriant 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Demulcent 2 *
Deodorant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant 2 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diagnostic 1 Martindale's 28th
Diaphoretic? 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 2 *
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th