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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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
N-DOCOSYL-ARACHIDATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-EICOSYL-ARACHIDATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-HEXACOSYL-ARACHIDATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTACOSYL-ARACHIDATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
N-TETRACOSYL-ARACHIDATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
N-TRIACONTYL-ARACHIDATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
NIACIN 39 Fruit 60.0 66.0 0.07 Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN 39 Plant 7.0 65.0 -0.16 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NIACIN 39 Seed 7.0 66.0 0.69 Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL 3 Fruit not available 1.0 -0.48 Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL 3 Seed not available 1.0 -0.72 Duke, 1992 *
O-COUMARIC-ACID 4 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
O-COUMARIC-ACID 4 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.
OCTADECA-5,6-DIENOIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
OCTAN-1-AL 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Fruit 22000.0 108712.0 0.36 Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 22000.0 108712.0 -0.09 Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed Essent. Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
OSTHENOL 0 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
Antifatigue 8 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant 15 Duke, 1992 *
Antifertility 3 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrositic 2 Martindale's 28th
Antifibrotic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic 4 Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglutamaergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglycosation 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95