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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
CADMIUM 3 Fruit 0.0 0.1 -0.24 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Fruit 2.0 50.0 -0.33 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Fruit Juice Jim Duke's personal files.
CAFFEINE 62 Bud 0.3 Jim Duke's personal files.
CAFFEINE 62 Flower 62.0 1.10 Jim Duke's personal files.
CAFFEINE 62 Leaf 6.0 -0.94 Jim Duke's personal files.
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 210.0 5615.0 0.41 *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Fruit 40.0 -0.32 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPHENE 9 Fruit 0.1 -0.35 *
CAPRIC-ACID 3 Fruit *
CAPROIC-ACID 1 Fruit *
CAPRYLIC-ACID 5 Fruit *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 99000.0 887125.0 0.56 *
CAROTENOIDS 0 Fruit 12.0 35.0 -0.50 *
CAROTENOIDS 0 Pericarp 12.0 35.0 *
CARVONE 19 Fruit 2.0 10.0 -0.50 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Pericarp *
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Pericarp Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
CASTASTERONE 0 Pollen Or Spore Jim Duke's personal files.
CHLORINE 7 Fruit 12.0 32.0 -0.68 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anthelmintic 2 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Anti-LDL 1 *
Antiacetylcholinesterase 10 *
Antiacid 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacne 13 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic 1 *
AntiADD 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiadenomic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadhesive 1 *
Antiadrenalinic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiaflatoxin 3 *
AntiAGE 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 13 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Antiaging 5 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antialdosteronic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th