Plant Lens culinaris (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Lentil

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
(+)-GAMMA-HYDROXY-L-HOMOARGININE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ALANINE	3	Seed	11720.0	13200.0	0.65	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALANINE	3	Sprout Seedling	3560.0	11865.0	-0.50	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
AMYLASE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ARGININE	14	Seed	21680.0	24400.0	-0.01	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ARGININE	14	Sprout Seedling	6110.0	20365.0	-0.79	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Seed	42.0	70.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Sprout Seedling	148.0	605.0	-0.60	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASH	0	Seed	21000.0	30875.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Sprout Seedling	9250.0	35833.0	-0.75	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASPARAGIN	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Seed	31020.0	34900.0	1.09	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Sprout Seedling	14330.0	47765.0	-0.96	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Seed	not available	16.0	0.57	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Sprout Seedling	0.3	1.0	-0.29	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
BIOTIN	4	Seed	not available	132.0	0.06	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CALCIUM	28	Seed	386.0	604.0	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Sprout Seedling	244.0	853.0	-0.57	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	597000.0	642800.0	0.47	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	221400.0	-1.96	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)

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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
Trypanosomastat	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Tumor-Promoter	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ubiquiot	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Uricosuric	5	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier	1	Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Uterotrophic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Varroacide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	8	Duke, 1992 *
Vasoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).