Plant Lactuca sativa (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Lettuce

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
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Leaf	90.0	1500.0	-1.54	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Leaf	320.0	5333.0	-0.74	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Leaf	700.0	11667.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
VANADIUM	16	Leaf	0.3	20.3	2.25	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Leaf	0.6	9.2	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-E	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-G	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-K	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Leaf	920000.0	971000.0	0.82	Duke, 1992 *
YTTERBIUM	0	Leaf	0.0	0.9	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *
YTTRIUM	0	Leaf	0.4	8.7	-0.98	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Leaf	2.7	974.0	5.45	Duke, 1992 *
ZIRCONIUM	0	Leaf	0.4	87.0	0.77	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
Copper-Chelator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cosmetic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Deliriant	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Depressant	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	3	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Disinfectant	1	Martindale's 29th
Diuretic	10	Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.