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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
Sprout-Inhibitor 1 Duke, J.A.. Personal Communication.
Stimulant 2 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Sunscreen 3 Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Surfactant 1 Schulz, V, Hansel, R and Tyler, VE. 1998. Rational Phytotherapy - A Physician's Guide to Herbal Medicine. 3rd ed. 1st English Edition. Translated by Terry C. Telger. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. 306 pp.
Sweetener 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sympathomimetic 1 *
Systolic-Depressant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Tachycardic 1 *
Teratogenic 4 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.
Teratologic 1 *
Termiticide 2 *
Termitifuge 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Inducer 1 *
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 2 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 4 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 4 *
Toxic 1 Martindale's 28th
Tracheorelaxant 1 *