Plant Lycopersicon esculentum (Solanaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Tomato

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
ADENOSINE	28	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Fruit	30.0	4132.0	0.17	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CAPROLACTONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-IONENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-KETO-GLUTARIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID	15	Fruit	30.0	496.0	-0.93	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-NONALACTONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-OCTALACTONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-OXOGLUTARIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Fruit	7.0	143.0	1.08	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Fruit	0.3	1700.0	0.27	Duke, 1992 *
ARABIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Fruit	1.0	3637.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Fruit	0.0	0.0	-0.48	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Fruit	50.0	2952.0	-0.10	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	5700.0	105461.0	1.26	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGINE	2	Fruit	not available	300.0	-0.73	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Fruit	1230.0	20332.0	1.34	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
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	6	Duke, 1992 *
5-HT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
Absorbent	1	Martindale's 29th
Acaricide	4	Duke, 1992 *
Acarifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acidifier	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Acidulant	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Acnegenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Addictive	1	Science News, 145: 294.
Additive	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Adjuvant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Adrenergic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Aggregant	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	9	Shimizu, M., Ito, T., Terashima, S., Hayashi, T., Arisawa, M., Morita, N., Kurokawa, S., Ito, K., and Hashimoto, Y. 1984. Inhibition of Lens Aldose Reductase by Flavonoids. Phytochemistry, 23: 1885-1888.