Plant Citrus paradisi (Rutaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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
LINALOL	0	Pericarp	not available	13.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALYL-ACETATE	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Fruit	190.0	2090.0	-0.33	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LITHIUM	11	Fruit	0.1	2.3	1.87	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN	15	Fruit	0.1	1.0	-0.75	Duke, 1992 *
LYCOPENE	16	Fruit	30.0	336.0	0.05	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Fruit	160.0	1760.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Fruit	15.0	3300.0	0.54	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Fruit	400.0	600.0	-0.91	Duke, 1992 *
MALONIC-ACID	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Fruit	0.0	7.7	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
MANNOSE	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MARMIN	2	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
MERANZIN	0	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
MERANZIN-HYDRATE	0	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
MERCURY	1	Fruit	0.0	0.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE	15	Fruit	3.0	222.0	-0.91	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-ANTHRALINATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
MOLYBDENUM	2	Fruit	0.1	0.8	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
MONOTERPENES	0	Pericarp	not available	130.0	not available	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
Tumorigenic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	2	HerbalGram No. 20, page 9.
Uricogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Uricosuric	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier	1	Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative	2	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Uterotrophic	2	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
UV-Screen	2	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Varroacide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	12	Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
Vasopressor	2	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Verrucolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *