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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Fruit 12.0 14.0 -0.57 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit 35.0 40.0 -0.71 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit Juice 0.2 -1.00 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Plant *
ALPHA-SINENSAL 0 Fruit 1.0 2.0 -1.00 *
ALPHA-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.
ALPHA-SINESAL 0 Fruit 3.0 -1.00 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-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.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Fruit 1.0 2.0 -0.45 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit 2.0 3.0 -0.41 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit Juice 0.1 1.1 -0.65 *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Fruit 0.7 1.0 -0.60 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Fruit 4.0 29.0 -0.68 *
ALPHA-YLANGENE 0 Pericarp Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ALUMINUM 5 Fruit 1.0 165.0 -0.18 *
ANTHERAXANTHIN 1 Fruit *
ANTHERAXANTHIN 1 Tissue Culture Jim Duke's personal files.
ANTHRANILIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Pericarp Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
APIGENIN-7-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNO-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf *
APIGENIN-TRIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 *
Preservative 2 Merck 11th Edition
Previtamin-A 1 *
ProHLDL 1 *
Prolactinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Proliferant 1 *
Prooxidant 6 *
Propecic 4 *
Prostaglandigenic 3 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer 1 Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 5 *
Prosticide 1 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 2 Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide 2 Martindale's 29th
PTK-Inhibitor 1 *
Pyrogenic 1 Daroca, P., Rodriguez, J., Reano, M., Canto, G., Miranda, P. 1996. Fever From Caffeine. Allergy, 51(3): 189-191.
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 5 *
Radioprotective 2 *
Refrigerant 1 Martindale's 28th