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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Coriandrum sativum (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Coriander; Chinese Parsley; Cilantro
How this plant is used
Food
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 13 Fruit 960.0 1.41 Abstract (See species file)
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 13 Plant 252.0 333.0 -1.00 Abstract (See species file)
P-HYDROXYCINNAMIC-ACID 1 Plant 1.1 -1.00 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Fruit 2160.0 16800.0 -0.10 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed Essent. Oil 58200.0 *
PALMITIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER 1 Essential Oil *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Fruit 1000.0 1097.0 -0.14 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PECTIN 24 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PENTADECANAL 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
PENTOSANS 0 Fruit 100000.0 0.21 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Fruit 40700.0 111300.0 0.26 *
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Seed 718000.0 0.76 *
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Fruit *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Leaf *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 3907.0 4687.0 0.45 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Leaf 720.0 6452.0 0.27 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Fruit 460.0 -0.63 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 11866.0 14781.0 -0.28 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
POTASSIUM 14 Leaf 5600.0 48177.0 0.79 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Essential 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 7 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 12 *
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 1 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor 36 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 33 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 4 *
GABA-nergic 1 *
Gastroirritant 1 Martindale's 29th
Gastroprotective 3 *
Genotoxic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 2 *
Glutathione-Depleting 1 *
Glutathionigenic 2 Martindale's 29th