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
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 *

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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.