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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
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Seed Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
PHELLANDRENE 4 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
PHENYLALANINE 7 Fruit 6470.0 7098.0 1.31 *
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 *
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 *
PHOTOANTHEOLE 0 Fruit *
PHOTOANTHEOLE 0 Seed *
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 *
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 *
PROLINE 0 Fruit 9000.0 9873.0 1.61 *
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 *
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 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Fruit *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticapillary-Fragility 1 Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinogenic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic 1 *
Anticariogenic 6 Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract 10 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticatarrh 1 Martindale's 29th
Anticephalagic 2 *
Anticervicaldysplasic 3 *
AntiCFS 3 *
Anticheilitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticholinergic 1 *
Anticholinesterase 2 *
Antichorea 1 *
Antichoreic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticirrhotic 2 *
Anticirrhotic? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.