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
SPERMIDINE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SQUALENE	10	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Cotyledon	28800.0	59100.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Fruit	30.0	759.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	11100.0	69785.0	0.95	Duke, 1992 *
STELLASTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMAST-7,22,25-TRIEN-3-BETA-OL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMAST-7,25-DIEN-3-BETA-OL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMAST-7-EN-3-BETA-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STRONTIUM	0	Fruit	4.0	98.0	0.53	Duke, 1992 *
SUGAR	0	Fruit	not available	10000.0	-1.21	Duke, 1992 *
SULFOQUINOVOSYL-DIACYL-GLYCEROL	0	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR	14	Fruit	140.0	5250.0	2.67	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXEROL	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Fruit	0.3	7.6	0.29	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Fruit	150.0	3797.0	0.32	Duke, 1992 *
TIRUCALLOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM	0	Fruit	0.3	18.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Fruit	40.0	1012.0	0.23	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.