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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
BETA-CITRAURIN 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-CRYPTOXANTHIN 2 Fruit *
BETA-CRYPTOXANTHIN 2 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-CRYTOXANTHIN 0 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
BETA-CUBEBENE 0 Fruit 10.0 -0.71 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Fruit 0.7 1.0 -0.57 *
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Pericarp Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-MYRCENE 2 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit 11.0 13.0 -0.30 *
BETA-SINENSAL 0 Pericarp Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
BETA-SINESAL 0 Fruit 6.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-SINESAL 0 Pericarp Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit 170.0 -0.57 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETA-ZEACAROTENE 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
BETAINE 14 Fruit 390.0 630.0 -1.04 *
BORON 4 Fruit 1.9 27.5 -0.25 *
BRASSINOLIDE 3 Pollen Or Spore Jim Duke's personal files.
BRAYLIN 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
BROMINE 0 Fruit 1.0 -0.43 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
BUTYRIC-ACID 6 Fruit *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Estrogenic 7 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Ethanolytic 1 *
Expectorant 9 *
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 *
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 *
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 4 *
GABA-nergic 1 *
Gastroirritant 1 Martindale's 29th
Gastroprotective 2 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 *
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 *