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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
THREONINE 4 Fruit 6020.0 6604.0 1.49 *
THREONINE 4 Seed 6020.0 6604.0 -0.34 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TIN 4 Fruit 11.0 -0.33 *
TIN 4 Seed 1.2 11.0 0.98 *
TOCOPHEROL 93 Fruit *
TOCOPHEROL 93 Seed Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
TRANS-1,8-TERPIN 0 Fruit *
TRANS-1,8-TERPIN 0 Seed Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
TRANS-ANETHOLE 8 Essential Oil 610800.0 0.71 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRANS-ANETHOLE 8 Flower Essent. Oil 412000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRANS-ANETHOLE 8 Fruit 3030.0 72980.0 0.78 *
TRANS-ANETHOLE 8 Leaf Essent. Oil 218000.0 -1.70 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRANS-ANETHOLE 8 Plant 5550.0 -0.16 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRANS-ANETHOLE 8 Root Essent. Oil 16000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRANS-ANETHOLE 8 Seed 3030.0 77400.0 0.18 *
TRANS-ANETHOLE 8 Seed Essent. Oil 500000.0 865200.0 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRANS-ANETHOLE 8 Sprout Seedling Jim Duke's personal files.
TRANS-OCIMENE 0 Fruit 20.0 330.0 1.00 *
TRANS-OCIMENE 0 Seed 20.0 330.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRIGONELLINE 15 Fruit *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Termiticide 2 *
Termitifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer 1 *
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Thyrotropic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Tissue-Thromboplastin-Inhibitor 1 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 3 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 2 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 5 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Toxic 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Tranquilizer 4 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 6 *
Tremorigenic 1 Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide 9 Martindale's 29th
Trichomonistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Trypanocide 1 *
Trypsin-Enhancer 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumor-Promoter 3 *
Tumorigenic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.