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Plant Citrus paradisi (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Grapefruit
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SINAPIC-ACID 9 Fruit 2.0 5.0 -1.41 Duke, 1992 *
SINAPIC-ACID 9 Pericarp 2.0 35.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM 1 Fruit 0.0 341.0 -0.15 Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit 10.0 110.0 -0.27 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STIGMASTEROL 12 Fruit not available 20.0 -0.90 Duke, 1992 *
STRONTIUM 0 Fruit 3.3 220.0 2.58 Duke, 1992 *
SUBAPHYLLIN 3 Fruit not available not available not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
SUBAPHYLLIN 3 Leaf not available not available not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
SUBEROSIN 0 Root not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SUCROSE 14 Fruit not available 21400.0 -0.60 Duke, 1992 *
SUGARS 0 Fruit 33000.0 99600.0 -0.47 Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR 14 Fruit 7.0 2090.0 0.47 Duke, 1992 *
SYNEPHERINE 0 Fruit not available 0.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Leaf not available 305.0 -0.17 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Pericarp not available 3.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Leaf not available 28.0 -0.20 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Pericarp 1.0 11.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.0 6.0 0.09 Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE 4 Fruit not available 100.0 -1.21 Duke, 1992 *
TIN 4 Fruit 0.7 3.3 -0.36 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Tachycardic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Taenicide 1 Martindale's 28th
Teratogenic 4 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.
Teratologic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide 2 Duke, 1992 *
Termitifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 4 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 3 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Toxic 1 Martindale's 28th
Tranquilizer 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 4 Duke, 1992 *
Tremorigenic 1 Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide 6 Martindale's 29th
Triglycerigenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Trypanocide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Tumor-Promoter 2 Jim Duke's personal files.