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
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Fruit	10.0	253.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Fruit	3.0	76.0	0.20	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Fruit	0.0	1.3	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN	0	Fruit	1400.0	80000.0	4.58	Duke, 1992 *
NON-TRANS-2-EN-AL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONA-TRANS-2,CIS-6-DIEN-1-AL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONADIEN-2,6-AL-1	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONADIEN-2,6-OL-2	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONEN-2-AL-1	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OBTUSIFOLIOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Cotyledon	55200.0	241000.0	0.92	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Fruit	20.0	506.0	-0.48	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	116100.0	180000.0	0.50	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Cotyledon	213200.0	504700.0	0.47	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	270.0	6835.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	12420.0	20400.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Fruit	2.5	63.0	2.86	Duke, 1992 *
PENTADEC-CIS-8-EN-1-AL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-CHOLINE	2	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
Glutathionigenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hematopoietic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	9	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	1	Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195.
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	2	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypertensive	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hypnotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypoammonemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic	15	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Hypoglycemic	6	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	10	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.