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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
PROLINE 0 Fruit 60.0 3473.0 -0.15 *
PROPIONIC-ACID 6 Plant *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 9260.0 78000.0 -0.42 *
QUERCETAGETIN 8 Fruit Juice Jim Duke's personal files.
QUERCETIN 176 Fruit 3.4 -0.79 Jim Duke's personal files.
QUINIC-ACID 1 Fruit *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 0.0 3.0 -0.43 *
RUBIDIUM 0 Fruit 0.1 7.7 -0.85 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
RUTIN 87 Leaf 9000.0 -0.45 Jim Duke's personal files.
RUTIN 87 Pericarp 6100.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
SABINENE 5 Fruit 11.0 13.0 -0.53 *
SABINENE 5 Fruit Juice 0.0 0.2 *
SALICYLATES 7 Fruit 0.0 200.0 0.24 *
SCOPARONE 22 Bark 162.5 Jim Duke's personal files.
SCUTELLAREIN 7 Fruit *
SCUTELLAREIN 7 Fruit Juice Jim Duke's personal files.
SELENIUM 60 Fruit 0.0 0.0 -0.39 *
SERINE 1 Fruit 40.0 2410.0 -0.44 *
SESELIN 3 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
SESLIN 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antimalarial 5 Khalid, S.A., Farouk, A., Geary**, T.G., and Jensen, J.B. 1985. Potential Antimalarial Candidates From African Plants: An In Vitro Approach Using Plasmodium falciparum*. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 15: 201-209, 1986.
Antimange 1 *
Antimanic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastalgic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanogenic 1 *
Antimelanomic 8 *
AntiMeniere's 1 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal 5 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimenorrhagic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic 8 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Antimetastatic (Stomach) 1 *
Antimetrorrhagic 1 Fitoterapia No.55-1984.
Antimigraine 5 Martindale's 29th
Antimite 1 *
Antimitotic 3 Gawron, A. and Glowniak, K. 1987. Cytostatic Activity of Coumarins in vitro. Planta Medica 1987: 526.
Antimitral-valve-prolapse 1 *
Antimorphinic 1 Martindale's 28th
AntiMS 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.