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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
HEXANOL 3 Fruit Juice 0.0 0.2 *
HISTIDINE 7 Fruit 180.0 1359.0 -0.25 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
HORDENINE 8 Fruit 0.0 *
HYDROXYPROLINE 1 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
ICHANGIN-17-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
IRON 6 Fruit 1.0 8.0 -0.50 *
ISOCAPROIC-ACID 0 Fruit *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Fruit 250.0 1888.0 -0.53 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOLUTEIN 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOPENTENYL-PSORALENS 0 Fruit *
ISOPRENE 0 Essential Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
ISORHOIFOLIN 0 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
ISORHOIFOLIN 0 Pericarp *
ISOSAKURANETIN 0 Fruit *
ISOSINENSETIN 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
JASMONIC-ACID 0 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
LEAD 0 Fruit 0.0 1.1 -0.43 *
LEUCINE 2 Fruit 230.0 1136.0 -0.84 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LIMONENE 60 Fruit 8300.0 9700.0 0.64 *
LIMONENE 60 Fruit Juice 1.0 278.0 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
P450-Inhibitor 3 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 1 *
Paramecicide 1 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
Parasiticide 1 Martindale's 29th
Parasympathomimetic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery 31 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Peristaltic 2 *
Pesticide 81 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Pheromone 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 1 *
Phospholipase-A2-Inhibitor 1 Somasundaram, S., Sadique, J. 1985. Anti-hemolytic Effect of Flavonoidal Glycosides of Clerodendron inerme: An in vitro Study. Fitoterapia 57(2): 103, 1986.
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 *
Photosensitizer 1 Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Phototoxic 1 *
Phytohormonal 1 Russell, G. B., Phytochemical resources for crop protection, N. Z. J. Technol., 2, 1986, 127-134.
Piscicide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pituitary-Stimulant 1 *