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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SUCROSE 14 Fruit 47000.0 -0.41 *
SUGARS 0 Fruit 39600.0 119800.0 -0.39 *
SULFUR 14 Fruit 46.0 1000.0 -0.29 *
SYNEPHRINE 5 Fruit 15.0 43.0 *
SYNEPHRINE 5 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
TANGERETIN 15 Fruit *
TANGERETIN 15 Fruit Juice Jim Duke's personal files.
TANGERETIN 15 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
TAU-CAROTENE 0 Pericarp *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Fruit 0.1 -0.36 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Fruit 1.0 2.0 -0.75 *
TETRA-O-METHYL-SCUTELLAREIN 0 Fruit *
TETRA-O-METHYL-SCUTELLAREIN 0 Fruit Juice Jim Duke's personal files.
TETRADECANAL 0 Fruit 5.0 9.0 1.00 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 1.0 7.0 0.21 *
THREONINE 4 Fruit 150.0 1132.0 -0.78 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THYMOL 71 Fruit 0.0 0.1 -0.71 *
TITANIUM 0 Fruit 0.1 3.9 -0.67 *
TRANS-2-HEXENAL 4 Pericarp Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
TRANS-2-HEXENOL 1 Fruit Juice 0.0 0.1 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 4 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor 1 Pizzorno, J. 1998. Total Wellness. Prima Health, a division of Prima.
Cytoprotective 3 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Deliriant 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Demulcent 2 *
Dentifrice 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Deodorant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic 3 *
Detoxicant 2 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diagnostic 1 Martindale's 28th
Diaphoretic? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 2 *