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
MERCURY	1	Leaf	0.0	0.0	-0.10	Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE	15	Leaf	160.0	2667.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
MOLYBDENUM	2	Leaf	0.1	2.0	-0.13	Duke, 1992 *
MUFA	13	Leaf	120.0	2000.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEXACOSYLALCOHOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Leaf	4.0	67.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Leaf	0.2	28.0	0.19	Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN	0	Leaf	2200.0	54000.0	0.51	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Leaf	90.0	1500.0	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Leaf	110.0	136.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Leaf	350.0	5833.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Leaf	30.0	500.0	0.12	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Leaf	2.0	33.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
PECTINS	0	Leaf	not available	40000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Leaf	550.0	9167.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	108.0	13920.0	1.65	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Leaf	380.0	6333.0	1.34	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Leaf	2900.0	121800.0	4.04	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Leaf	480.0	8000.0	-0.47	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
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	2	Martindale's 28th
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Fatal	1	Martindale's 29th
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	1	Martindale's 29th
FLavor	7	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	7	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hematopoietic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *