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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
EO 0 Pericarp 3700.0 10000.0 -0.12 *
EPI-ISO-OBACUNOIC-ACID-17-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Seed CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ERIODICTYOL 10 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ESCULETIN 30 Fruit *
FAT 0 Fruit 1000.0 19000.0 -0.50 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Fruit 25.0 35.0 -0.57 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Pericarp 25.0 160.0 -1.00 *
FERULOYL-PUTRESINE 0 Plant 15.0 41.0 *
FIBER 15 Fruit 2000.0 172000.0 0.29 *
FLUORINE 0 Fruit 0.0 0.9 -0.45 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
FRIEDELIN 2 Pericarp CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FRUCTOSE 8 Plant 12400.0 *
GALACTAN 0 Plant *
GALACTURONIC-ACID 0 Fruit *
GAMMA-CADINENE 0 Pericarp *
GAMMA-CAROTENE 2 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Pericarp 0.4 1.0 *
GERANIAL 13 Fruit 420.0 700.0 1.03 *
GERANIAL 13 Leaf 31.0 -0.40 *
GERANIAL 13 Pericarp 4.0 700.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Respirastimulant 1 *
Retinoprotectant Optometry 1 *
Roborant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Scabicide 1 Martindale's 29th
Schizophrenigenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Sedative 17 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Serotonin-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Serotoninergic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Sialogogue 1 Martindale's 29th
Soap 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spasmogenic 5 Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Spasmolytic 1 *
Spermicide 3 Martindale's 28th
Spermigenic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Stimulant 1 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Stomachic 1 *
Sunscreen 5 Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Suppository 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sweetener 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sympathomimetic 1 *