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Plant Cydonia oblonga (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Quince
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
ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID 4 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-ARABINOSE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LEUCOANTHOCYANIDINE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID 15 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MARMELOLACTONE-A 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MARMELOLACTONE-B 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE 3 Seed 200000.0 220000.0 0.14 Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID 2 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN 39 Fruit 2.0 22.0 -0.52 Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN 24 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 150.0 1049.0 -0.66 Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 1970.0 12160.0 -0.51 Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit not available 3000.0 -1.43 Duke, 1992 *
PROTOPECTIN 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 0.3 1.9 -0.67 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
COX-1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cyanogenic 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Demulcent 2 Duke, 1992 *
Dermatitigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic? 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Diuretic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant 1 Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
Fibrinolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor 2 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 4 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Gastroprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hemopoietic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat 2 Martindale's 29th