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Plant Juglans cinerea (Juglandaceae)

Common Names
Butternut
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
SERINE 1 Seed 16400.0 16967.0 1.23 Duke, 1992 *
SILICON 4 Seed not available 1450.0 1.12 Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM 1 Seed 2.7 12.0 -0.70 Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 4250.0 4397.0 -0.47 Duke, 1992 *
STRONTIUM 0 Seed not available 0.3 -0.83 Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR 14 Seed not available 2870.0 0.19 Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANTALUM 0 Seed not available 0.0 -0.42 Duke, 1992 *
THORIUM 0 Seed not available 0.1 -1.08 Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE 4 Seed 9400.0 9725.0 0.36 Duke, 1992 *
TIN 4 Seed not available 0.7 -0.56 Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM 0 Seed not available 2.7 -0.56 Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Seed 3660.0 3786.0 0.16 Duke, 1992 *
TUNGSTEN 0 Seed not available 0.1 -0.28 Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE 8 Seed 9770.0 10108.0 0.55 Duke, 1992 *
VALINE 3 Seed 15410.0 15942.0 0.48 Duke, 1992 *
VANADIUM 16 Seed not available 0.0 -0.57 Duke, 1992 *
WATER 0 Seed 30000.0 36000.0 -0.74 Duke, 1992 *
YTTERBIUM 0 Seed not available 0.0 -0.33 Duke, 1992 *
ZINC 77 Seed 26.0 37.0 -0.23 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antimigraine 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimitral-valve-prolapse 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimorphinic 1 Martindale's 28th
AntiMS 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimyalgic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antinephritic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antinephrolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antineuropathic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antineurotic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
AntiNF-kB 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antinociceptive 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antinyctalopic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiobesity 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antionychyotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiophidic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiosteoarthritic 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiosteoporotic 8 Duke, 1992 *
Antiototic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antioxidant 8 Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.