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Common Names
Fennel
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BETA-FENCHOL-ACETATE | 0 | Root Essent. Oil | not available | 10000.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-FENCHOL-ACETATE | 0 | Sprout Seedling | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-MYRCENE | 2 | Essential Oil | 6000.0 | 19000.0 | -0.68 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-PHELLANDRENE | 3 | Fruit | 170.0 | 1020.0 | -0.30 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-PHELLANDRENE | 3 | Seed | 170.0 | 1020.0 | -0.58 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Essential Oil | 1000.0 | 6000.0 | -0.60 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Fruit | 1.0 | 780.0 | -0.27 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Plant | not available | 10.0 | -0.42 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Seed | 1.0 | 780.0 | -0.60 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Seed | 310.0 | 340.0 | -0.50 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BORON | 4 | Leaf | 1.0 | 36.0 | -0.69 | Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron). |
| CAFFEIC-ACID | 102 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAFFEIC-ACID | 102 | Seed | 0.5 | 225.0 | -0.56 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Fruit | 880.0 | 13941.0 | 2.33 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Leaf | 1000.0 | 10556.0 | -0.54 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Seed | 1415.0 | 13100.0 | 1.64 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPESTEROL | 2 | Leaf | 10.0 | 12.0 | -0.84 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Fruit | 10.0 | 540.0 | -0.13 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Seed | 10.0 | 540.0 | 0.28 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| 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 |