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Plant Foeniculum vulgare (Apiaceae)

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
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 9 Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 2 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Uricosuric 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant 1 Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier 1 Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative 2 Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Uterotonic 2 Tyler, V.E.. 1982. The Honest Herbal. George F. Stickley Co., Philadelphia PA. 263 pp.
Uterotrophic 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Varroacide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator 15 Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor 1 Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Vermicide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Vermifuge 2 Duke, 1992 *
Verrucolytic 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Vibriocide 1 Wealth of India.