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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BETA-FENCHOL-ACETATE | 0 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | 10000.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-FENCHOL-ACETATE | 0 | Sprout Seedling | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-MYRCENE | 2 | Essential Oil | 6000.0 | 19000.0 | -0.68 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-PHELLANDRENE | 3 | Fruit | 170.0 | 1020.0 | -0.30 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-PHELLANDRENE | 3 | Seed | 170.0 | 1020.0 | -0.58 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Essential Oil | 1000.0 | 6000.0 | -0.60 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Fruit | 1.0 | 780.0 | -0.27 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Plant | not available | 10.0 | -0.42 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Seed | 1.0 | 780.0 | -0.60 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Seed | 310.0 | 340.0 | -0.50 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BORON | 4 | Leaf | 1.0 | 36.0 | -0.69 | Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron). |
| CAFFEIC-ACID | 102 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAFFEIC-ACID | 102 | Seed | 0.5 | 225.0 | -0.56 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Fruit | 880.0 | 13941.0 | 2.33 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Leaf | 1000.0 | 10556.0 | -0.54 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Seed | 1415.0 | 13100.0 | 1.64 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPESTEROL | 2 | Leaf | 10.0 | 12.0 | -0.84 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Fruit | 10.0 | 540.0 | -0.13 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Seed | 10.0 | 540.0 | 0.28 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| 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 * |