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
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	13000.0	216667.0	0.05	Duke, 1992 *
PUFA	4	Leaf	1590.0	26500.0	0.95	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Leaf	0.0	0.1	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
SERINE	1	Leaf	390.0	6500.0	-0.96	Duke, 1992 *
SFA	0	Leaf	390.0	6500.0	-0.36	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Leaf	10.0	800.0	1.97	Duke, 1992 *
SILVER	3	Leaf	0.0	0.6	1.33	Duke, 1992 *
SITOSTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Leaf	28.0	18560.0	2.65	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Leaf	40.0	667.0	-0.19	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMAST-7-EN-3-BETA-OL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STRONTIUM	0	Shoot	2.0	580.0	0.21	Duke, 1992 *
SUGAR	0	Leaf	not available	65000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR	14	Shoot	29.0	3800.0	1.71	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXASTEROL	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Leaf	0.5	8.3	0.00	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Leaf	590.0	9833.0	0.01	Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM	0	Leaf	0.1	870.0	3.03	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
Hypotensive	12	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Hypotriglyceridemic	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
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
IKK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	8	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	8	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Immunosuppressant	1	Martindale's 29th
iNOS-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	6	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insulin-Sparing	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Insulinotonic	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant	4	Merck 11th Edition