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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
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Seed Oil 1.7 1.34 *
PHYSETOLIC-ACID 0 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PHYTASE 0 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHYTATE 0 Seed 2480.0 25800.0 1.70 *
PHYTIC-ACID 9 Seed 16400.0 27400.0 0.74 *
PHYTIN 0 Seed 2800.0 -0.98 LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The
Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ 0 Seed *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Seed 500.0 1760.0 -0.17 *
PINITOL 5 Leaf 10000.0 -1.00 *
PINITOL 5 Nodule 0.6 *
PINITOL 5 Root 550.0 *
PINITOL 5 Seed 2000.0 2980.0 1.00 *
PIPERIDINE 10 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
POLYSACCHARIDES 0 Seed 120000.0 -0.77 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
POTASSIUM 14 Plant 10600.0 -0.78 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
POTASSIUM 14 Seed 4100.0 27600.0 1.32 *
POTASSIUM 14 Sprout Seedling 2790.0 15081.0 0.18 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROLINE 0 Seed 21350.0 23344.0 2.36 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROLINE 0 Shoot *
PROPANAL 0 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiasthmatic 10 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiataxic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiatherogenic 2 *
Antiatherosclerotic 16 *
Antiautistic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antibackache 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial 37 *
Antiberiberi 1 *
Antibiotic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiBPH 1 *
Antibradiquinic 1 Fitoterapia No.61: 277, 1990.
Antibronchitic 2 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Anticalculic 1 *
Anticancer 16 *
Anticancer (Breast) 3 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 2 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Anticancer (Colon) 3 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach) 2 *
Anticancer (Liver) 4 *