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
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihangover	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihelminthic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	2	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antihepatitic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Antihepatotoxic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	4	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihomocystinuric	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihyperactivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperammonemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperglycemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.