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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
ARACHIDIC-ACID 0 Seed *
ASH 0 Seed 37400.0 -0.32 *
ASPARAGINE 2 Seed *
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Seed *
ATRACTYLIGENIN 0 Seed *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Leaf 20.0 25.0 -1.03 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed 520.0 530.0 -0.43 *
BETA-TOCOPHEROL 0 Seed Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CAFESTEROL 0 Seed Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CAFESTOL 2 Seed 6000.0 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CAFFEINE 62 Seed 600.0 32000.0 0.33 *
CAFFEOL 0 Seed *
CAFFEOYL-3-QUINIC-ACID 0 Seed *
CAFFETANNIC-ACID 0 Seed 84600.0 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CAHWEOL 0 Seed *
CALCIUM 28 Leaf 19000.0 20406.0 0.13 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CALCIUM 28 Seed 1200.0 1281.0 -0.53 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CAMOESTANOL 0 Seed *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antibacterial 14 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Antiberiberi 1 *
Antibiotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antibradyarrhythmic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antibronchitic 1 *
Antibronchoconstrictor 1 *
Anticalculic 1 *
Anticancer 5 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 2 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Anticancer (Colon) 1 *
Anticancer (Forestomach) 1 *
Anticancer (Liver) 2 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *
Anticancer (Skin) 1 *
Anticanker 2 *
Anticarcinogenic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticardiospasmic 1 *
Anticariogenic 3 *