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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PETROSELINIC-ACID | 0 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PETROSELINIC-ACID | 0 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PHELLANDRENE | 4 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PHENYLALANINE | 7 | Fruit | 6470.0 | 7098.0 | 1.31 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHENYLALANINE | 7 | Seed | 6470.0 | 7098.0 | -0.53 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| PHOSPHORUS | 4 | Fruit | 4449.0 | 5960.0 | 0.83 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHOSPHORUS | 4 | Plant | 510.0 | 5100.0 | 0.73 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| PHOSPHORUS | 4 | Seed | 644.0 | 5960.0 | 0.16 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHOTOANTHEOLE | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHOTOANTHEOLE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHYTOSTEROLS | 2 | Seed | 660.0 | 700.0 | -0.46 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| POTASSIUM | 14 | Fruit | 14800.0 | 19400.0 | 0.13 | Duke, 1992 * |
| POTASSIUM | 14 | Plant | 3380.0 | 39700.0 | 1.25 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| POTASSIUM | 14 | Seed | 1415.0 | 13100.0 | 0.05 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROLINE | 0 | Fruit | 9000.0 | 9873.0 | 1.61 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROLINE | 0 | Seed | 9000.0 | 9873.0 | -0.29 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Fruit | 148735.0 | 200000.0 | 1.21 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Plant | 28000.0 | 280000.0 | 0.87 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Seed | 18684.0 | 173000.0 | -0.54 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID | 43 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Expectorant | 12 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| 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 | 36 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Fungicide | 43 | Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp. |
| Fungiphilic | 1 | J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283. |
| Fungistat | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GABA-nergic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gastroprotective | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gastrostimulant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Genotoxic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Glaucomagenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glutathione-Depleting | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glutathionigenic | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Goitrogenic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Gonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Gram(+)icide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gram(-)icide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |