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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticalculic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticataract	9	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiCFS	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.