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Plant Cucumis sativus (Cucurbitaceae)

Common Names
Cucumber
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
BUTYRIC-ACID 6 Seed 1200.0 1700.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
CADMIUM 3 Fruit 0.0 0.6 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 129.0 10000.0 1.42 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 29100.0 736709.0 -0.25 Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM 24 Fruit 0.0 1.0 -0.37 Duke, 1992 *
CITRULLINE 5 Fruit not available 146.0 -0.57 Duke, 1992 *
CLADOCHROMES 0 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COBALT 2 Fruit 0.0 0.1 -0.52 Duke, 1992 *
COPPER 12 Fruit 0.3 42.0 2.27 Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-A 1 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-B 8 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-C 1 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-D 4 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-E 6 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-I 6 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITIN 3 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOARTENOL 7 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antiestrogenic 2 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifeedant 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigastritic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigibberellin 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigingivitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiglaucomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglossitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout 1 Duke, 1992 *