Plant Cucumis sativus (Cucurbitaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cucumber

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
CYCLOEUCALENOL	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Fruit	30.0	759.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
D-GLUCOSE	1	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUPHOL	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Fruit	900.0	43037.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	300000.0	425000.0	0.84	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Fruit	6000.0	151896.0	0.10	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FOLACIN	15	Fruit	0.1	4.0	0.80	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-GLUTAMYL-BETA-PYRAZOL-1-YL-ALANINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Fruit	1540.0	38987.0	2.00	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Fruit	190.0	4810.0	0.47	Duke, 1992 *
GRAMISTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXANAL	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXEN-(2)-AL-(1)	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE	7	Fruit	80.0	2025.0	0.22	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Fruit	2.6	420.0	1.14	Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE	3	Fruit	170.0	4303.0	0.20	Duke, 1992 *
ISOMULTIFLORINEOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Antitumor (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Liver)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	4	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antiulcer	11	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiulcerogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiuremic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiurethrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaginitic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antivertigo	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	7	Abid Ali Khan, M.M., Jain, D.C., Bhakuni, R.S., Zaim, M., and Thakur, R.S. 1991. Occurrence of some antiviral sterols in Artemisia annua. Plant Science, 75: 161-165, 1991.
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anxiolytic	7	Merck 11th Edition
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphrodisiac	1	Duke, 1992 *