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Common Names
Fennel
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALUMINUM | 5 | Seed | 6.0 | 56.0 | -0.27 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ANETHOLE | 36 | Essential Oil | not available | 692000.0 | 0.82 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANETHOLE | 36 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANETHOLE | 36 | Seed | 64800.0 | 800000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ANETHOLE | 36 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | 680000.0 | -1.00 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANISALDEHYDE | 7 | Essential Oil | not available | 8200.0 | -1.00 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANISALDEHYDE | 7 | Fruit | 1.0 | 1080.0 | 1.05 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ANISALDEHYDE | 7 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANISALDEHYDE | 7 | Seed | 1.0 | 1080.0 | -0.44 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ANISALDEHYDE | 7 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANISIC-ACID | 6 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANISIC-ACID | 6 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ANISIC-ACID | 6 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| ANISIC-KETONE | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ANISIC-KETONE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| ANISKETONE | 0 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANOL | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| APIOLE | 20 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| APIOLE | 20 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980. |
| ARGININE | 14 | Fruit | 6800.0 | 7460.0 | 0.84 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| AntiADD | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antiadenomic | 2 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Antiadenoviral | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207. |
| Antiadrenalinic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antiadrenergic | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Antiaflatoxin | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiAGE | 2 | Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95 |
| Antiaggregant | 15 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antiaging | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiakathisic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antialcoholic | 4 | Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications. |
| Antialdosteronic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Antialkali? | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antiallergenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiallergic | 11 | J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569. |
| Antialopecic | 6 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antialzheimeran | 7 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antialzheimeran? | 2 | Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8. |
| Antiamblyopic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antianaphylactic | 4 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |