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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae)

Common Names
Pumpkin
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SFA 0 Fruit 520.0 6190.0 -0.24 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SFA 0 Seed 86740.0 93180.0 0.34 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SILICON 4 Seed Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SODIUM 1 Flower 50.0 1030.0 -0.01 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SODIUM 1 Fruit 10.0 119.0 -0.17 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SODIUM 1 Seed 180.0 193.0 -0.41 *
SPINASTEROL 0 Seed *
SQUALENE 10 Seed *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Flower 20.0 410.0 0.89 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit 30.0 357.0 -0.26 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 22670.0 30710.0 0.10 *
STEROIDS 0 Seed 10000.0 1.00 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
STIGMAST-7-ENOL 0 Flower Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
STIGMAST-7-ENYL-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Flower Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
STIGMASTEROL 12 Seed *
SUCROSE 14 Seed 14000.0 -0.50 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
THIAMIN 31 Flower 0.4 8.6 0.96 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.5 5.9 0.07 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THIAMIN 31 Seed 1.9 3.7 -0.69 *
THREONINE 4 Fruit 250.0 3452.0 0.18 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Laxative 5 *
Leptingenic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 1 *
Lipolytic 1 LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The
Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
Lipotropic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 4 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic 2 *
Litholytic 1 *
Lubricant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 *
Lymphocytogenic 1 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
MAO-A-Inhibitor 1 *
MAO-Inhibitor 1 *
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer 1 *
Memorigenic 1 *
Metal-Chelator 2 McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
Metal-Chelator (Copper) 1 Seidel, V., Verholle, M., Malard, Y., Tillequin, F., Fruchart, J-C., Duriez, P., Bailleul, F., Teissier, E. 2000. Phenylpropanoids from Ballota nigra L. Inhibit in vitro LDL Peroxidation. Phytotherapy Research, 14(2): 93-98.
Metalloproteinase-Inhibitor 1 *
Metastatic 1 Science News, 146: 421.
MMP-9-Inhibitor 1 *