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
FUMARIC-ACID	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURAL	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GABA	22	Fruit	220.0	480.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CAROTENE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENTISIC-ACID	8	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETONE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLINS	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Fruit	not available	16300.0	-0.72	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Fruit	90.0	54053.0	3.18	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCERIC-ACID	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Fruit	23.0	3637.0	0.01	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCOLIC-ACID	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYOXAL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GRAMISTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIACOL	18	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEMICELLULOSE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTADIEN-TRANS-2,CIS-4-AL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTADIEN-TRANS-2,TRANS-4-AL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTULOSE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXADIEN-TRANS-2-,TRANS-4-AL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	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.