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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Coffea arabica (Rubiaceae)

Common Names
Coffee
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
10-O-METHYLCAFESTOL 0 Seed *
2,3,5-TRIMETHYLPHENOL 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
2-ETHYLPHENOL 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
2-METHOXY-4-ETHYLPHENOL 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
24-METHYLENE-CYCLOARTENOL 0 Seed *
24-METHYLENEPHENOL 0 Seed *
3,4-DICAFFEOYL-QUINIC-ACID 2 Seed *
3,5-DICAFFEOYL-QUINIC-ACID 3 Seed *
4,5-DICAFFEOYL-QUINIC-ACID 0 Seed *
4-ETHYLPHENOL 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
4-METHOXY-4-VINYLPHENOL 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
5-AVENASTEROL 0 Seed CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
7-STIGMASTEROL 0 Seed *
ACETALDEHYDE 6 Seed *
ADENINE 11 Seed *
ALLANTOIC-ACID 0 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ALLANTOIN 12 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Seed Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ARABINOGALACTOSE 0 Seed *
ARABINOSE 0 Seed *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antipsoriac 2 Martindale's 28th
Antipyretic 3 *
Antiradicular 8 Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
AntiRaynaud's 1 *
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinotic 1 *
Antirheumatic 4 *
Antirhinitic 3 Martindale's 29th
Antisalmonella 1 *
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antiseborrheic 1 *
Antiseptic 14 *
Antiserotonergic 1 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.
Antisickling 1 Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antispasmodic 6 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 73.
Antistaphylococcic 3 *
Antisteatotic 1 *
Antistomatitic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistress 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.