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Plant Coffea arabica (Rubiaceae)

Common Names
Coffee
How this plant is used
Food
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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
10-O-METHYLCAFESTOL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
2,3,5-TRIMETHYLPHENOL 0 Seed not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
2-ETHYLPHENOL 0 Seed not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
2-METHOXY-4-ETHYLPHENOL 0 Seed not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
24-METHYLENE-CYCLOARTENOL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
24-METHYLENEPHENOL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
3,4-DICAFFEOYL-QUINIC-ACID 2 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
3,5-DICAFFEOYL-QUINIC-ACID 3 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
4,5-DICAFFEOYL-QUINIC-ACID 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
4-ETHYLPHENOL 0 Seed not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
4-METHOXY-4-VINYLPHENOL 0 Seed not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
5-AVENASTEROL 0 Seed not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
7-STIGMASTEROL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ACETALDEHYDE 6 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ADENINE 11 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALLANTOIC-ACID 0 Leaf 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.
ALLANTOIN 12 Leaf 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.
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 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.
ARABINOGALACTOSE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE 0 Seed not available not available 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
Insectifuge 8 Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Interferon-Synergist 1 Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Irritant 6 Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic 1 Martindale's 28th
Larvicide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Larvistat 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 2 Duke, 1992 *
Laxative? 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Lipotropic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 5 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Litholytic 1 Martindale's 29th
Lubricant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lypolytic 1 Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
MAO-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Memorigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *