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Plant Coffea arabica (Rubiaceae)

Common Names
Coffee
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
CAMPESTANOL 0 Seed not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CAMPESTEROL 2 Seed 110.0 120.0 -0.37 Duke, 1992 *
CAPRINIC-ACID 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Leaf 666000.0 712000.0 0.80 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed 600000.0 728000.0 0.81 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CARNAUBIC-ACID 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE 1 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Seed 50000.0 80000.0 2.10 Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTANOL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTEROL 1 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE 20 Seed not available 300.0 -1.29 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CITRIC-ACID 23 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CITROSTADIENOL 1 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COFFEASTEROL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN 7 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOEUCALENOL 3 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYSTEINE 13 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE 2 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DATURIC-ACID 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DEXTRINS 0 Seed not available 8700.0 not available 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
Essential 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant 1 Martindale's 28th
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fetotoxic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Fibrinolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Flatugenic 2 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor 9 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fumigant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Fungicide 8 Duke, 1992 *
Fungistat 1 Laekeman, G.M., Van Hoof, L., Haemers, A., Vanden Berghe, D.A., Herman, A.G., and Vlietinck, A.J. Eugenol a Valuable Compound for In Vitro Experimental Research and Worthwhile for Further In Vivo Investigation. Phytotherapy Research 4(3): 93, 1990.
Gastroprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemolytic 2 Martindale's 28th
Hemostat 4 Martindale's 29th
Hemostatic 1 Merck 11th Edition