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

Common Names

Orange

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
TRANS-SABINENE-HYDRATE	0	Fruit	0.0	0.1	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Fruit	90.0	680.0	-0.24	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TYRAMINE	11	Fruit	0.0	1.0	0.71	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Fruit	160.0	1208.0	-0.50	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
UNDECANAL	2	Fruit	0.7	1.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
URONIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALENCENE	0	Fruit	3.0	4.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
VALENCENE	0	Fruit Juice	0.0	15.3	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
VALENCENE	0	Pericarp Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
VALENCIACHROME	0	Fruit	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALENCIACHROME	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALENCIAXANTHIN	0	Fruit	not available	3.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALENCIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
VALINE	3	Fruit	100.0	3020.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLAXANTHIN	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLAXANTHIN	2	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
VIOLAXANTHIN	2	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
VIT-B-6	0	Fruit	1.0	5.0	-0.54	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VITEXIN-XYLOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
WATER	0	Fruit	839000.0	898000.0	0.55	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
(+)-Inotropic	1	Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
5-HT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acaricide	8	Duke, 1992 *
Acarifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AChE-Inhibitor	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Acidulant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Addictive	1	Science News, 145: 294.
Additive	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Adenosine-Antagonist	1	McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Adjuvant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Adrenergic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Aggregant	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	17	Duke, 1992 *