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
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	35000.0	583333.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
CERYL-ALCOHOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLORINE	7	Leaf	not available	395.0	-0.60	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Leaf	0.0	20.0	1.06	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Leaf	not available	500.0	-0.62	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Leaf	0.0	0.9	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Leaf	0.4	29.0	0.04	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Leaf	160.0	2667.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-5-AVENASTEROL	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-7-AVENASTEROL	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ERGOSTEROL	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	3000.0	50000.0	-0.13	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	7000.0	116667.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORINE	0	Leaf	0.0	8.0	1.34	Duke, 1992 *
FOLACIN	15	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIUM	0	Stem	0.2	7.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Leaf	1820.0	30333.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Leaf	570.0	9500.0	-0.24	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 *