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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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List of plant chemicals.
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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 *
ANETHOLE 36 Essential Oil 692000.0 0.82 Jim Duke's personal files.
ANETHOLE 36 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
ANETHOLE 36 Seed 64800.0 800000.0 *
ANETHOLE 36 Seed Essent. Oil 680000.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
ANISALDEHYDE 7 Essential Oil 8200.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
ANISALDEHYDE 7 Fruit 1.0 1080.0 1.05 *
ANISALDEHYDE 7 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
ANISALDEHYDE 7 Seed 1.0 1080.0 -0.44 *
ANISALDEHYDE 7 Seed Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
ANISIC-ACID 6 Essential Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
ANISIC-ACID 6 Fruit *
ANISIC-ACID 6 Seed Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ANISIC-KETONE 0 Fruit *
ANISIC-KETONE 0 Seed Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ANISKETONE 0 Seed Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
ANOL 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
APIOLE 20 Fruit *
APIOLE 20 Seed 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 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Lactagogue 1 *
Larvicide 3 *
Larvistat 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 7 *
Laxative? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic 1 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
Leucocytogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 5 *
Lipotropic 2 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 9 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic 3 Martindale's 29th
Lubricant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 *
Lymphocytogenic 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.
MAO-A-Inhibitor 2 *
MAO-B-Inhibitor 1 *
MAO-Inhibitor 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer 1 *