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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
SILICON 4 Fruit 2.0 -0.60 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
SILVER 3 Fruit 0.0 0.1 -0.59 *
SINAPIC-ACID 9 Fruit 7.0 19.0 0.78 *
SINAPIC-ACID 9 Fruit Juice Jim Duke's personal files.
SINAPIC-ACID 9 Pericarp 45.0 100.0 1.00 *
SINENSETIN 2 Fruit *
SINENSETIN 2 Fruit Juice Jim Duke's personal files.
SINENSETIN 2 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
SINENSETIN 2 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
SINENSIAXANTHIN 0 Fruit *
SINESETIN 0 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
SODIUM 1 Fruit 0.0 29.0 -0.18 *
STACHYDRINE 6 Fruit *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Fruit 20.0 -0.90 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
STRONTIUM 0 Fruit 0.1 110.0 0.73 *
SUBAPHYLLIN 3 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
SUBAPHYLLIN 3 Leaf Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
SUBERENOL 0 Root Bark 700.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
SUBEROSIN 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
SUCCINIC-ACID 7 Fruit *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticataract 10 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticerebrotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiCFS 3 *
Anticheilitic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticholinesterase 1 L. Gracza (1985) as cited by Buchbauer re antiacetylcholinesterase.
Antichoreic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticirrhotic 2 *
Anticirrhotic? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticlastogen 3 *
Anticlaudificant? 1 Martindale's 29th
Anticlimacteric 4 *
Anticoagulant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Anticoeliac 1 Martindale's 28th
Anticold 2 *
Anticolic 1 *
Anticolitic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticomplementary 1 *