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

Common Names

Pumpkin

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
ALPHA-SPINASTERYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Fruit	10.0	119.0	0.71	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Seed	not available	11.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSYL-6-C-GLUCOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	200.0	3445.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Fruit	370.0	6429.0	0.57	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Seed	40330.0	81280.0	2.40	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBATE-OXIDASE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Flower	280.0	5773.0	0.94	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Fruit	90.0	1071.0	-0.22	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASH	0	Flower	4800.0	98970.0	0.69	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASH	0	Fruit	7500.0	95238.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	47530.0	70000.0	0.67	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Fruit	1020.0	12143.0	0.26	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Seed	24770.0	41080.0	1.64	Duke, 1992 *
AUROXANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AVENASTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMINO-ISOBUTYRIC-ACID	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)

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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
Antigingivitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic	1	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 *
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranulocytopenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihelminthic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	1	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	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatitic	3	Martindale's 29th
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic	7	Duke, 1992 *