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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
PEROXIDASE 0 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHASEOL 2 Leaf *
PHASEOLIN 5 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHASIN 0 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PHENYLALANINE 7 Seed 19050.0 20830.0 1.11 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHENYLALANINE 7 Shoot *
PHENYLALANINE-AMMONIA-LYASE 0 Tissue Culture *
PHOSPHATIDES 0 Seed 1350.0 7260.0 -0.02 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHOSPHATIDIC-ACID 0 Sprout Seedling *
PHOSPHATIDYL-CHOLINE 2 Seed *
PHOSPHATIDYL-ETHANOLAMINE 0 Sprout Seedling *
PHOSPHATIDYL-GLYCEROLE 0 Sprout Seedling *
PHOSPHATIDYL-INOSITOL 0 Sprout Seedling *
PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE 0 Plant *
PHOSPHOGLUCOSE-ISOMERASE 0 Plant *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 2250.0 7305.0 1.24 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHOSPHORUS 4 Plant 2400.0 5410.0 0.88 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHOSPHORUS 4 Seed 1580.0 8040.0 0.71 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Sprout Seedling 580.0 4891.0 -0.68 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Oil 1.9 1.49 Booth, S. L., Suttie, J. W. 1998. Dietary intake and adequacy of vitamin K. J. Nutrition, 128(5): 785-788.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antidote (Iodine) 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidote (Lead) 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Mercury) 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Morphine) 1 *
Antidote (Paracetamol) 1 Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Paraquat) 1 Martindale's 28th
Antidysenteric 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antidysgeuzic 1 *
Antidyskinetic 5 Martindale's 28th
Antidysmenorrheic 4 *
Antidyspeptic 1 *
Antidysphagic 1 *
AntiEBV 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antieczemic 8 Merck 11th Edition
Antiedemic 11 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antielastase 3 *
Antiembolic 1 *
Antiemetic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiencephalitic 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiencephalopathic 7 Martindale's 29th