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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
CAMPHENE 9 Seed Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
CAMPHOR 41 Fruit 10.0 180.0 -0.55 *
CAMPHOR 41 Seed 10.0 180.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 522900.0 577680.0 -1.10 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Plant 51000.0 519000.0 -0.99 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed 61884.0 573000.0 0.20 *
CARVONE 19 Seed Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
CERYL-ALCOHOL 0 Fruit *
CERYL-ALCOHOL 0 Seed Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
CHOLINE 20 Seed *
CHROMIUM 24 Fruit 4.0 5.0 0.19 *
CHROMIUM 24 Seed 0.1 0.5 -0.61 *
CINNAMIC-ACID 18 Fruit *
CINNAMIC-ACID 18 Seed Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
CIS-ANETHOLE 1 Fruit 10.0 300.0 1.31 *
CIS-ANETHOLE 1 Plant 50.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CIS-ANETHOLE 1 Seed 10.0 300.0 1.00 *
CIS-ANETHOLE 1 Seed Essent. Oil 3000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
CIS-MIYABENOL-C 0 Seed 7.3 Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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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 *