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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Citrus sinensis (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Orange
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
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Fruit 12.0 14.0 -0.57 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit 35.0 40.0 -0.71 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit Juice 0.2 -1.00 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Plant *
ALPHA-SINENSAL 0 Fruit 1.0 2.0 -1.00 *
ALPHA-SINENSAL 0 Pericarp Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ALPHA-SINESAL 0 Fruit 3.0 -1.00 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-SINESAL 0 Pericarp Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Fruit 1.0 2.0 -0.45 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit 2.0 3.0 -0.41 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit Juice 0.1 1.1 -0.65 *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Fruit 0.7 1.0 -0.60 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Fruit 4.0 29.0 -0.68 *
ALPHA-YLANGENE 0 Pericarp Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ALUMINUM 5 Fruit 1.0 165.0 -0.18 *
ANTHERAXANTHIN 1 Fruit *
ANTHERAXANTHIN 1 Tissue Culture Jim Duke's personal files.
ANTHRANILIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Pericarp Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
APIGENIN-7-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNO-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf *
APIGENIN-TRIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antihyperkinetic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 11 *
Antihyperthyroid 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihypoglycemic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihypotensive 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiichythyotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiielus? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiimplantation 1 *
Antiimpotence 2 Martindale's 29th
Antiinfarctal 1 Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.
Antiinfective 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinfertility 4 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory 30 Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antiinsomniac 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiinsomniac? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiinsomnic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiischemic 2 *
Antijet-lag 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Antikeratitic 1 *