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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Glycine max (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Soybean
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
PROPIONIC-ACID 6 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PROTEASE 0 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 109000.0 354000.0 3.28 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTEIN 0 Plant 139000.0 166000.0 -0.06 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTEIN 0 Seed 130000.0 409000.0 1.56 *
PROTEIN 0 Sprout Seedling 62000.0 453000.0 1.12 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Plant 0.2 0.5 -1.40 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Seed *
PSEUDOTARAXASTEROL 0 Seed *
PTERIN 0 Seed 0.1 *
PUFA 4 Seed 112550.0 123060.0 0.13 *
PUTRESCINE 0 Seed *
PYRIDOXINE 43 Seed 6.4 0.12 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PYROGLUTAMIC-ACID 2 Seed 1000.0 3000.0 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
QUERCETIN 176 Plant *
QUERCETIN 176 Shoot *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-2-GLUCOSYL-RUTINOSIDE 0 Leaf *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-SOPHOROSIDE 0 Leaf *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-SOPHOROSIDE 0 Shoot *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-O-SOPHOROSIDE 0 Leaf *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiacne 7 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic 1 *
AntiADD 1 Martindale's 29th
AntiAddisonian 1 *
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadenovirus 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiadrenalinic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiaflatoxin 3 *
AntiAGE 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
Antiaggregant 19 *
Antiaging 5 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 8 *
Antialdosteronic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialkalotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiallergenic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic 9 *