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
ISOORIENTIN	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Fruit	0.0	2.8	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Fruit	230.0	5822.0	0.15	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Cotyledon	35100.0	486700.0	0.16	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Fruit	220.0	5570.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	66900.0	170468.0	0.54	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Cotyledon	not available	312200.0	1.17	Duke, 1992 *
LITHIUM	11	Fruit	0.2	0.6	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Fruit	220.0	5570.0	0.38	Duke, 1992 *
LYSOLECITHIN	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Fruit	101.0	7000.0	2.26	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Fruit	0.5	98.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
MELOSIDE-A	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MERCURY	1	Fruit	0.0	0.1	1.50	Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE	15	Fruit	40.0	1012.0	0.07	Duke, 1992 *
MEVALONIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	3.0	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *
MOLYBDENUM	2	Fruit	0.1	2.8	0.08	Duke, 1992 *
MUFA	13	Fruit	30.0	759.0	-0.24	Duke, 1992 *
MULTIFLORINEOL	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 *