An official website of the United States government.

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
  1. Home
  2. Juglans nigra

Juglans nigra (Juglandaceae)

Common Names
Black Walnut
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
Download these results as:
CSV
EXCEL
PDF
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
NICKEL 3 Seed 4.8 0.01 Furr, A.K., et al. 1979
OCT-2-EN-1-AL 0 Essential Oil 18000.0 *
OCTADECADIENOIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil *
OCTADECATRIENOIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil *
OCTADECENOIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 118560.0 123965.0 0.04 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 13 Seed *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 21260.0 22230.0 -0.24 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed Oil *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Seed 770.0 805.0 -0.28 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PENTADECADIENOIC ACID 0 Seed Oil *
PENTADECANOIC-ACID 1 Seed Oil *
PENTADECENOIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil *
PENTAN-1-AL 0 Essential Oil 6000.0 *
PENTAN-1-OL 0 Essential Oil 26000.0 *
PEROXIDASE 0 Seed *
PHENYLACETIC-ACID 2 Seed *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Seed 11070.0 11575.0 0.00 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 1070.0 -0.65 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Hull Husk 1070.0 1.00 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
Download these results as:
CSV
EXCEL
PDF
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
Antiseptic 21 Martindale's 28th
Antiserotonin 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisickling 4 Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antispare-Tire 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
Antispasmodic 14 Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antistaphylococcic 5 *
Antistomatitic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistreptococcic 4 *
Antistress 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke 2 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
Antisunburn 1 *
Antisyndrome-X 7 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
Antithiamin 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithrombic 2 *
Antithyroid 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antithyrotoxic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.