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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
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 *
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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
Antihypercholesterolemic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperglycemic 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Antihyperkeratotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkinetic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperthyroid 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antihypotensive 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiichythyotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiinfarctal 1 Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.
Antiinfertility 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory 13 Duke, 1992 *
Antiinsomniac 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiinsomnic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiischemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antikeratitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antikeratotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiLegionella 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic 3 Duke, 1992 *