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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
ETHYL-MYRISTATE 1 Essential Oil *
ETHYL-MYRISTATE 1 Fruit 12.0 153.0 1.00 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ETHYL-PALMITATE 1 Fruit 46.0 598.0 1.41 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ETHYL-PENTADECANOATE 0 Essential Oil *
ETHYL-PENTEDECANOATE 0 Fruit 0.0 5.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ETHYL-STEARATE 0 Fruit 42.0 546.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ETHYL-UNDECANOATE 0 Essential Oil *
FAT 0 Fruit 110000.0 210000.0 0.96 *
FAT 0 Leaf 6000.0 50000.0 -0.13 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FERULIC-ACID 61 Plant 11.0 -1.38 *
FIBER 15 Fruit 291000.0 319000.0 1.67 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FIBER 15 Leaf 16000.0 129000.0 -0.40 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FRUCTOSE 8 Fruit *
FURFUROL 0 Fruit 60000.0 1.00 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GAMMA-SITOSTEROL 0 Fruit *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Essential Oil *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Fruit 762.0 2626.0 -0.17 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Seed Essent. Oil 40800.0 -0.28 *
GERANIAL 13 Fruit Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GERANIAL 13 Seed Essent. Oil 1300.0 *
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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