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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Foeniculum vulgare (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Fennel
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
ARGININE 14 Seed 6800.0 7460.0 -0.73 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf 123600.0 11.02 Jim Duke's personal files.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Plant 340.0 3148.0 0.15 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Seed 0.0 -0.34 *
ASH 0 Fruit 79600.0 93026.0 0.94 *
ASH 0 Plant 17000.0 170000.0 0.89 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ASH 0 Seed 9720.0 90000.0 1.27 *
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Fruit 18333.0 20111.0 1.31 *
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Seed 18333.0 20111.0 -0.22 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
AVICULARIN 7 Leaf Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
BENZOIC-ACID 20 Fruit *
BENZOIC-ACID 20 Seed Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
BERGAPTEN 26 Fruit *
BERGAPTEN 26 Seed *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit 0.0 1.0 -0.15 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Plant 21.0 241.0 0.58 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Seed 0.1 0.9 -0.37 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Essential Oil 200.0 -0.69 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-FENCHOL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil 1000.0 6000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
(-)-Chronotropic 1 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
(-)-Inotropic 1 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
11B-HSD-Inhibitor 2 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 3 *
5-HETE-Inhibitor 1 *
5-HT-Inhibitor 1 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 2 *
Abortifacient 1 *
Acaricide 7 *
ACE-Inhibitor 7 *
AChE-Inhibitor 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Acidifier 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Acidulant 2 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Acnegenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Additive 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Adjuvant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor 2 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 21 Shimizu, M., Ito, T., Terashima, S., Hayashi, T., Arisawa, M., Morita, N., Kurokawa, S., Ito, K., and Hashimoto, Y. 1984. Inhibition of Lens Aldose Reductase by Flavonoids. Phytochemistry, 23: 1885-1888.
Allelochemic 9 *
Allelopathic 10 *