Plant Citrus sinensis (Rutaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Orange

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
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	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Fruit	35.0	40.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Fruit Juice	not available	0.2	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SINENSAL	0	Fruit	1.0	2.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SINENSAL	0	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	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	not available	3.0	-1.00	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-SINESAL	0	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	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	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Fruit	2.0	3.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Fruit Juice	0.1	1.1	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-THUJENE	0	Fruit	0.7	1.0	-0.60	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Fruit	4.0	29.0	-0.68	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-YLANGENE	0	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	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	Duke, 1992 *
ANTHERAXANTHIN	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANTHERAXANTHIN	1	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ANTHRANILIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Pericarp Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
APIGENIN-7-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNO-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN-TRIMETHYL-ETHER	0	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Uterotrophic	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Varroacide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vasoconstrictor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	14	Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
Vasopressor	3	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Venoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Venotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vermicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Verrucolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vibriocide	1	Blaschek, W., Hansel, R., Keller, K., Reichling, J., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1998. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Auflage Band 2 (A-K), 909 pp., (L-Z), 858 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Vitamin-A-Activity	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	7	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).