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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
Hypnotic 3 Martindale's 29th
Hypoammonemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypocalcemic 1 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Hypocholesterolemic 18 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic 12 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic 5 *
Hypotensive 17 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Hypothermic 2 *
Hypouricemic 1 *
Ileorelaxant 1 *
Immunomodulator 10 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 8 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Immunosuppressant 3 Martindale's 29th
iNOS-Inhibitor 1 *
Inotropic 1 *
Insecticide 11 *
Insectifuge 24 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 5 Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.