Plant Daucus carota (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Carrot

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
FALCARINDIOL	13	Root	not available	88.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
FALCARINOL	16	Root	10.0	47.0	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Root	1700.0	29000.0	0.20	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	87000.0	302000.0	0.19	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Root	10000.0	134000.0	1.02	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORINE	0	Root	0.0	1.8	1.11	Duke, 1992 *
FOLACIN	15	Root	0.1	1.2	-0.85	Duke, 1992 *
FORMIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FUMARASE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FUMARIC-ACID	7	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-BISABOLENE	2	Root	not available	264.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CAROTENE	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-DECALACTOSE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-DECANOLACTONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-LINOLENIC-ACID	20	Seed	540.0	1870.0	-1.56	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-MUUROLENE	0	Root	not available	3000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Antiarthritic	15	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasphyctic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	11	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiasthmatic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiataxic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiatherogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatheromic	1	Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic	13	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillary	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	52	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibiotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antibronchoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibrucellosic	1	Gawron, A., Gorski, G., Glowniak*, K. 1989. Increased proliferation of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated human leucocytes after 8-methoxypsoralen treatment. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 194-195, 1990.
Anticalculic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	13	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Bladder)	1	Duke, 1992 *