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Common Names
Coffee
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GUANOSINE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| HEMICELLULOSE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| HOMOCELLULOSE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| HYDROGEN-SULFIDE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| HYPOXANTHINE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| IRON | 6 | Leaf | 966.0 | 1032.0 | 1.70 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| IRON | 6 | Seed | 29.0 | 31.0 | -0.56 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID | 4 | Seed | 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. |
| ISOEUGENOL | 16 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| KAHWEOL | 0 | Seed | not available | 3000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| L-ASPARAGINE | 0 | Fruit | 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. |
| L-ASPARTIC-ACID | 0 | Fruit | 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. |
| LANOSTEROL | 1 | Seed | 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. |
| LIGNOCERIC-ACID | 1 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LINOLEIC-ACID | 27 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LINOLENIC-ACID | 0 | Seed | 33300.0 | 72000.0 | 0.68 | ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes. |
| M-CRESOL | 8 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MANNAN | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MANNOSE | 3 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| METHIONINE | 15 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antipsoriac | 2 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antipyretic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antirheumatic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antirhinitic | 3 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antisalmonella | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiscotomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiseborrheic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiseptic | 14 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antisteatotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antistomatitic | 2 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207. |
| Antistress | 2 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |