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Plant Citrus sinensis (Rutaceae)

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
PROLINE 0 Fruit 60.0 3473.0 -0.15 Duke, 1992 *
PROPIONIC-ACID 6 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 9260.0 78000.0 -0.42 Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETAGETIN 8 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
QUERCETIN 176 Fruit not available 3.4 -0.79 Jim Duke's personal files.
QUINIC-ACID 1 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 0.0 3.0 -0.43 Duke, 1992 *
RUBIDIUM 0 Fruit 0.1 7.7 -0.85 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
RUTIN 87 Leaf not available 9000.0 -0.45 Jim Duke's personal files.
RUTIN 87 Pericarp not available 6100.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
SABINENE 5 Fruit 11.0 13.0 -0.53 Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE 5 Fruit Juice 0.0 0.2 not available Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLATES 7 Fruit 0.0 200.0 0.24 Duke, 1992 *
SCOPARONE 22 Bark not available 162.5 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
SCUTELLAREIN 7 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SCUTELLAREIN 7 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
SELENIUM 60 Fruit 0.0 0.0 -0.39 Duke, 1992 *
SERINE 1 Fruit 40.0 2410.0 -0.44 Duke, 1992 *
SESELIN 3 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
SESLIN 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Estrogenic 7 Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Ethanolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant 9 Duke, 1992 *
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 1 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor 44 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 32 Duke, 1992 *
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 4 Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gastroirritant 1 Martindale's 29th
Gastroprotective 2 Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic 2 Martindale's 29th
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide 1 Duke, 1992 *