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
Toxic	1	Martindale's 28th
Tranquilizer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Tumor-Promoter	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Tumorigenic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Ubiquiot	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Uricosuric	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Urine-Acidifier	1	Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Vasodilator	7	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	3	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).