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
Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Depressant	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	8	Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	1	Martindale's 29th
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
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	3	Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
FLavor	7	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
FPTase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fungicide	5	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *