Plant Helianthus annuus (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Sunflower; Girasol

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
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	36000.0	178000.0	0.48	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Pollen Or Spore	not available	11.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Seed	900.0	1100.0	2.71	Jim Duke's personal files.
P-CYMENE	16	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Rizk, A.F.M. and Al-Nowaihi, A.S., The Phytochemistry of the Horticultural Plants of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar.
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Rizk, A.F.M. and Al-Nowaihi, A.S., The Phytochemistry of the Horticultural Plants of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar.
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	14250.0	32000.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Seed	490.0	515.0	-0.29	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PECTIN	24	Plant	not available	110000.0	1.41	Rizk, A.F.M. and Al-Nowaihi, A.S., The Phytochemistry of the Horticultural Plants of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar.
PECTOLINARIGENIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
PENTAN-2-ONE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTOSANS	0	Pericarp	240000.0	290000.0	not available	Rizk, A.F.M. and Al-Nowaihi, A.S., The Phytochemistry of the Horticultural Plants of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar.
PERILLYL-ACETATE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYL-ACETALDEHYDE	2	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Seed	11690.0	48000.0	4.35	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-CHOLINE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-ETHANOLAMINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-SERINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	6930.0	7450.0	0.55	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Seed Oil	not available	0.1	-1.06	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTATE	0	Seed	16000.0	17030.0	0.58	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
Hemolytic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	5	Martindale's 29th
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	17	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	14	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	2	Martindale's 29th
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	1	Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990.
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hyperglycemic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hyperthyroid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypnotic	2	Martindale's 29th
Hypoammonemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.