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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
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Seed 540.0 1456.0 0.54 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Seed not available 1.0 -0.37 Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE 14 Seed not available 2500.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEINE 62 Seed 10000.0 25000.0 0.04 Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Seed 580.0 1563.0 -0.47 Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed 337000.0 908000.0 1.53 Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COLALIPASE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COLAOXYDASE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN 7 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
D,L-CATECHIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
D-CATECHIN 4 Seed 3000.0 4000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Seed 4000.0 30000.0 -1.24 Duke, 1992 *
FIBER 15 Seed 14000.0 30000.0 -0.83 Duke, 1992 *
GUM 0 Seed not available 3000.0 -0.80 Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Seed 20.0 54.0 -0.45 Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KOLANIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KOLATEIN 0 Seed not available not available not available 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
Antiencephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifatigue 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifeedant 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility 1 Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989.
Antifibrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antigallstone 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigastritic 3 Martindale's 29th
Antigingivitic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antigonadotropic 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antihangover 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic 1 Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatoadenomic 1 Duke, 1992 *