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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Fruit 370.0 4405.0 -0.30 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 44800.0 64530.0 0.63 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Flower 50.0 1030.0 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Fruit 60.0 714.0 -0.21 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Seed 990.0 1064.0 -0.27 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PECTIN 24 Seed 30000.0 -0.08 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
PEPONIN 0 Seed *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Fruit 300.0 3810.0 0.17 *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Seed 12220.0 22845.0 1.35 *
PHEOPHYTIN-A 3 Plant *
PHOSPHOLIPIDS 0 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Flower 490.0 10100.0 2.69 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 440.0 5238.0 0.61 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Seed 10600.0 12982.0 2.02 *
PHYTIC-ACID 9 Seed 15000.0 22000.0 0.33 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Fruit 120.0 1428.0 0.62 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PLASTOCYANIN 0 Plant *
POTASSIUM 14 Flower 1730.0 35670.0 1.68 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 3400.0 40476.0 2.00 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
POTASSIUM 14 Seed 5540.0 25000.0 1.09 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 4 Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osmoregulator 1 *
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Ovulant 1 *
Oxidant 2 Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 2 *
Percutaneostimulant 2 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery 4 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Peristaltic 1 *
Pesticide 23 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 *
Phytohormonal 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pituitary-Stimulant 1 *
PKC-Inhibitor 1 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 *