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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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
VERATRIC-ACID 0 Plant 0.3 *
WATER 0 Fruit 86000.0 112000.0 -2.86 *
WATER 0 Leaf 73000.0 -3.67 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
XANTHOTOXIN 43 Fruit *
ZINC 77 Fruit 34.0 52.0 0.65 *
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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