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Plant Citrus sinensis (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Orange
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
CHOLESTEROL 1 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE 20 Fruit 70.0 160.0 -0.57 Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM 24 Fruit 0.0 0.4 -0.45 Duke, 1992 *
CIS-SABINENE-HYDRATE 0 Fruit not available 0.1 -0.71 Duke, 1992 *
CITFLAVANONE 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CITFLAVANONE 0 Root Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CITRABASINE 0 Root Bark not available 14.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CITRACRIDONE-I 0 Root Bark not available 400.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID 23 Fruit 5600.0 9800.0 -0.49 Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLAL 20 Fruit 4.0 5.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL 15 Fruit 0.7 1.0 -0.51 Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLYL-ACETATE 2 Fruit 0.0 0.1 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
CITRUNOBIN 0 Root Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CITRUSIN-II 0 Fruit not available 40.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRUSIN-III 0 Fruit not available 13.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRUSIN-IV 0 Fruit not available 6.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRUSININE-I 0 Root Bark not available 80.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CITRUSININE-II 0 Root Bark not available 40.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CITRUSINS 0 Plant not available not available not available J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
COBALT 2 Fruit 0.0 0.1 -0.53 Duke, 1992 *
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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
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 Duke, 1992 *
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 Duke, 1992 *
Anticirrhotic? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticlastogen 3 Duke, 1992 *
Anticlaudificant? 1 Martindale's 29th
Anticlimacteric 4 Duke, 1992 *
Anticoagulant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Anticoeliac 1 Martindale's 28th
Anticold 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticolic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticolitic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticomplementary 1 Duke, 1992 *