Plant Citrus sinensis (Rutaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Orange

How this plant is used

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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
TRANS-SABINENE-HYDRATE	0	Fruit	0.0	0.1	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Fruit	90.0	680.0	-0.24	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TYRAMINE	11	Fruit	0.0	1.0	0.71	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Fruit	160.0	1208.0	-0.50	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
UNDECANAL	2	Fruit	0.7	1.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
URONIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALENCENE	0	Fruit	3.0	4.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
VALENCENE	0	Fruit Juice	0.0	15.3	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
VALENCENE	0	Pericarp Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
VALENCIACHROME	0	Fruit	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALENCIACHROME	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALENCIAXANTHIN	0	Fruit	not available	3.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALENCIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
VALINE	3	Fruit	100.0	3020.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLAXANTHIN	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLAXANTHIN	2	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
VIOLAXANTHIN	2	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
VIT-B-6	0	Fruit	1.0	5.0	-0.54	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VITEXIN-XYLOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
WATER	0	Fruit	839000.0	898000.0	0.55	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
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 *