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
ALANINE	3	Leaf	560.0	9333.0	-0.76	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LACTUCEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID	15	Leaf	1130.0	18833.0	2.15	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Fruit	6.0	139.0	1.02	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Leaf	3.0	126.0	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Leaf	710.0	11833.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Leaf	0.0	0.6	2.33	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	180.0	3000.0	-0.17	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Leaf	7700.0	290000.0	3.02	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Leaf	1420.0	23667.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
BARIUM	0	Leaf	0.1	145.0	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	11.0	190.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-LACTUCEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Leaf	0.9	87.0	0.70	Duke, 1992 *
BROMINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADMIUM	3	Leaf	0.0	4.0	0.69	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	360.0	19140.0	0.05	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAOUTCHOUC	0	Latex Exudate	400.0	1400.0	-1.17	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
Hemostat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostatic	1	Merck 11th Edition
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	9	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 210.
Hepatotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	1	Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195.
Histamine-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	2	Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	1	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypertensive	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hypnotic	1	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.
Hypoarginanemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic	16	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic	2	Duke, 1992 *