Plant Cucumis sativus (Cucurbitaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cucumber

How this plant is used

Food

Download these results as:

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 *

Download these results as:

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).