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

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Common Names

Summer Squash

How this plant is used

Food

Download these results as:

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
PUFA	4	Fruit	890.0	14080.0	0.17	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Fruit	0.4	6.0	0.21	Duke, 1992 *
SERINE	1	Fruit	480.0	7595.0	1.40	Duke, 1992 *
SFA	0	Fruit	440.0	6960.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Fruit	20.0	315.0	-0.15	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Fruit	40.0	635.0	-0.24	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Fruit	0.6	10.0	0.60	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Fruit	280.0	4430.0	0.59	Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Fruit	110.0	1740.0	1.25	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Fruit	310.0	4905.0	1.03	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Fruit	530.0	8385.0	0.81	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Fruit	1.0	18.0	1.65	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Fruit	not available	936800.0	0.72	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Fruit	2.0	41.0	0.32	Duke, 1992 *

Download these results as:

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
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier	1	Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Vasodilator	7	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).