Plant Foeniculum vulgare (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Fennel

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
OSTHENOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-ANISALDEHYDE	11	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	12000.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
P-ANISALDEHYDE	11	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
P-ANISIC-ACID	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Fruit	not available	93.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Seed	60.0	93.0	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Essential Oil	1000.0	10000.0	-0.55	Jim Duke's personal files.
P-CYMENE	16	Fruit	20.0	480.0	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Root Essent. Oil	not available	30000.0	1.35	Jim Duke's personal files.
P-CYMENE	16	Seed	20.0	480.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
P-HYDROXYCINNAMIC-ACID	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXYCINNAMIC-ACID	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	4000.0	6000.0	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	4000.0	6000.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETROSELINIC-ACID	0	Fruit	72000.0	168000.0	1.07	Duke, 1992 *
PETROSELINIC-ACID	0	Seed	72000.0	729000.0	0.81	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antibacillary	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	48	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibiotic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticalculic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	11	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Anticancer (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.