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

Common Names

Coriander; Chinese Parsley; Cilantro

How this plant is used

Food

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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
LEUCINE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Fruit	34.0	1238.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Seed Essent. Oil	15500.0	18950.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL	0	Fruit	4060.0	16900.0	2.26	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL-OXIDE	0	Fruit	2.0	21.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL	53	Essential Oil	not available	568000.0	1.96	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL	53	Fruit	400.0	10250.0	2.28	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL	53	Seed Essent. Oil	414190.0	742300.0	2.22	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL-ACETATE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	207780.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL-OXIDE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL-OXIDE	0	Fruit	2.0	21.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Fruit	13030.0	18260.0	-0.10	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	not available	132000.0	0.21	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Fruit	2939.0	4016.0	0.87	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MAGNESIUM	65	Leaf	6940.0	7488.0	1.30	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)

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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
Myoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	11	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Myotonic	1	Martindale's 29th
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	15	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NEP-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nephrotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Neuroexcitant	1	Martindale's 28th
Neuroinhibitor	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Neuroprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Neurotransmitter	2	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	3	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nodulation-Signal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Occuloirritant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	7	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.