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Plant Cola acuminata (Sterculiaceae)

Common Names
Abata Cola
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
KOLATIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-EPICATECHIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHLOBAPHENE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Seed 860.0 2318.0 -0.80 Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 22000.0 67000.0 -1.48 Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Seed not available 1.0 -0.97 Duke, 1992 *
STARCH 5 Seed not available 340000.0 0.12 Duke, 1992 *
SUGAR 0 Plant not available 29000.0 -0.68 Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THEOBROMINE 21 Seed not available 1000.0 -0.42 Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Seed not available 1.0 -1.33 Duke, 1992 *
WATER 0 Seed 120000.0 629000.0 1.54 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
ICAM-1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant 1 Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge 2 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 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
JNK-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Laxative 2 Duke, 1992 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lipotropic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 3 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 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
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 *