Plant Gleditsia triacanthos (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Honey Locust

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
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN-3-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
5-(3,4-DIHYDROXYCINNAMOYL)-(-)-QUINIC-ACID	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
7,3',4',5'-TETRAHYDROXYISOFLAVANOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETIC-ACID	16	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACRAMMERIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOID	0	Flower	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	not available	54000.0	-0.07	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	38000.0	40000.0	-0.24	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Seed	not available	2800.0	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	669000.0	969000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	not available	847000.0	1.29	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROXY-4-METHOXY-ISOFLAVONE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROXYSTEARIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EPICATECHIN-3-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EPICATECHOL-3-D-GLUCOSIDE-DIHYDRIATE	0	Seed	not available	19000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Fruit	not available	46000.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	8000.0	30000.0	-1.24	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Fruit	not available	127000.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Seed	not available	211000.0	0.60	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
Keratitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative	2	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Mucolytic	1	Martindale's 29th
Neuroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
NO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oncostatic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Osteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Oxytocic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Perfumery	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	5	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Protisticide	1	Martindale's 29th
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.